Montreal, Canada — ADHD Sleeping Problems are much more common than people realize. For example, did you know that More than 50% of adults with ADHD have on-going sleep problems, and 27% have chronic insomnia? Yet despite this being such a huge problem, there aren’t many websites dedicated to this subject.

“Having adult ADHD insomnia is doubly annoying because lack of sleep mimics ADHD symptoms such as difficulty concentrating, poor memory, distraction and disorganization.”

“It’s such a shame that so many adults with ADHD suffer like this because there are ways to get a good night’s sleep and feel refreshed when you wake up, even if your sleeping problems date back to childhood’ says Jacqueline Sinfield, the ADHD coach for adults.

“If you want to change your sleep patterns from say 4am to noon to one that fits in with the rest of the world, there are strategies to quieten your mind so you can fall asleep, stop waking up in the night, or even how to get up when your alarm rings. There are answers to all these common problems,” says Sinfield.

With the launch of the new website, articles with information, resources and easy to implement tips are being added all the time to help reduce the stress, discomfort and sadness that sleeping problems in ADHD adults can cause.

ADHD Sleeping Problems is currently adding more information to their website in celebration of its launch. Topics covered include clocks, caffeine, medication, falling asleep, waking up, Teeth Grinding, two types of Sleep Apnea, Restless Leg Syndrome and others.

As well as being a registered nurse, Jacqueline is a qualified counselor, has a degree in psychology (Hons) from London, England and is a graduate of Coach University. Her expertise has been featured in the media, including CJAD radio and the Montreal Gazette. Her first ADHD book, “Untapped Brilliance: How to Reach your Full Potential as an Adult with ADHD“, has been endorsed by Dr. Hallowell and Dr. Gabor Mate. She also has her own radio show which airs every Monday.

She has helped hundreds of adults with ADHD all around the world and lives in Montreal, Cananda.

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Medication is the new way to level the playing field. What may be a new eerie trend is discussed in a recent New York Times article. Interviewed for the piece, Dr. Michael Anderson prescribes psychotropic drugs for children who are not doing well in school. The children mentioned come from poor socioeconomic backgrounds and thus attend overwhelmed and understaffed schools. What may well be caused by entirely external factors is being tackled with drugs whose long-term effects are not yet entirely known, particularly for children. These won’t be known for years to come, as the drugs are relatively new.

Some side effects are known. These include “growth suppression, increased blood pressure and, in rare cases, psychotic episodes.” In the case of Quintn Rocafort, he had to be taken off Adderall and hospitalized for a week, because he was hallucinating and became suicidal. Yet this did not stop his parents from putting his twelve and nine-year-old siblings on the very same drug. Siblings, who according to the parents, do not even have A.D.H.D. Quintn was put on Risperdal after his experience with Adderall.

This is egregious. The level of irresponsibility is unfathomable  because it is impossible to know what the full repercussions of long-term exposure to these drugs are for children. Only time can tell.

Side effects aside, there is a terrible lesson being taught to vulnerable minds: If you are not well adjusted now, this pill will solve your problem. Where is the accountability? Sometimes the lesson is to try, sometimes it is to try and fail. Learning to fall and then get up is a skill that must be learned like any other skill.

The efforts of Dr Anderson are noble, but entirely misguided. Giving medication to children who are doing poorly in school simply for the sake of performing better is a terrible, short-term solution for a long-term problem. Is this child to depend on drugs for the rest of his academic life? And at what cost?

Alexis, Ethan, and Perry, the rest of the Rocafort children, may be doing well in school now, but there is no lesson gained, only a lesson lost. I am not advocating the eradication of psychotropic drugs. Certainly they have their uses, and should be used at an adequate time and place. What is appalling is not just that they are being given to children who do not need them, but also that this decision-making seems to be done arbitrarily.

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