Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome

[livingwith]

I have had DSPS my entire life. Not that I knew what it was before I saw a documentary film on sleep disorders that mentioned it, and I decided to do some research.
Even earlier than my youngest memories of childhood start, my father tells stories of urging babysitters to keep me awake during the days.
School was pure torture, from the start. Elementary started at 9 ish, as I remember, and I could just barely be up for that, but I definitely couldn’t get up in time to eat breakfast o...Read the full article

[Norway]

Oh, it all sounds so familiar! Have you tried melatonin (1/2 mg is enough!) and light box? It helps some. I gain a good hour, and it's a help in not drifting later and later. I don't mind the light box as it sits on a shelf above my monitor and I spend the 45 minutes online.

You wrote:
"Interestingly, I’ve been doing my own chronotherapy regularly thru adulthood, even tho I didn’t know the name for it. I called it “hitting reset”. I would just stay up all night and all the next day, then I would be able to maintain a normal schedule for a little while, then get off again, and have to do it again."

Exactly! In periods once a month, in periods once a week. But "hitting reset" is your generation's expression, not mine. I call it my 36-hour-trick. And it's not usually planned, it just happens.