Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Disorders.

SOURCE: http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/circadian-rhythm-disorders-cause

This isn't good.  This past two weeks have been super stressful.  I know I say this all the time, but this is probably one of the most stressful episodes I've had in my life thus far.  All these things that are happening in my life is keeping me busy (and stressed), which could be a good thing, I guess; but in result, I've been hurting from them.  The website where I'm getting all this information from is from The Sleep Medicine Center at The Cleveland Clinic and more specifically, this information was review by Michael W. Smith, MD.  So what I'm assuming is that this information is consistent and reliable.

When I was in elementary school, I used to get headaches the hurt so much that I just had to go straight to sleep in order for them to go away.  Usually when I sleep, they did go away.  I haven't had those kinds of headaches on a consistent basis since.  But for the past two weeks now, I've been getting a lot of headaches and they've been lasting for days on end and not going away after some sleep.  The weekend I went to the Springs about two weeks ago, I was doing just fine.  But the night before going home, I didn't go to sleep.  I stayed up till early Monday morning cause I had to catch the FREX to head back home.  When I got back to my dorm around 7:00 A.M. that morning, I went to sleep.  Thing is, I had to wake up around 8:30 A.M. for class.  From there, I didn't go to sleep till around 8:00 P.M. that night.  That's when it all started.  I woke around midnight a couple of hours later. From there, I didn't go back to sleep till around 4 A.M., waking up around 8-9 A.M. hours later.

Looking into that website, I found that because of my change of routine, I can be considered for this type of disorders.  "Circadian rhythm disorders are disruptions in a person's circadian rhythm -- a name given to the "internal body clock" that regulates the (approximately) 24-hour cycle of biological processes in animals and plants."  That exactly fits what's happening to me.  The specific disorder that fits me is Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, or DSPS in which a person sleeping at different times can pretty much mess up one's sleeping patterns.

Thank goodness though that this could easily be fixed by just adjusting myself to my desired bedtime.  Also notice the time  I created this blog at  lol.  And no, it's not because I woke up this early.  So I think this is the cause of my headaches that have been killing me these past couple of weeks.  For sure, I'll finally be able to get back normal come spring break next week.

Yes, this blog was a little out there, but I needed a break from homework, so I thought I could do a quick research for a reason to why I'm always up this late …. Or early in the morning every night for the past two weeks.  Well, that's all for this blog.

P.S. You guys know how most of us will be in spring break at the end of this coming week.  Yep, so I'll be coming into the Springs either this Thursday, Friday, or at latest, Saturday.  So let's hang when I get in town.