Hi, newly diagnosed ADHD friend here. Any tips or strategies for waking up in the morning? No matter how early I get to bed I'm always sleeping in and running late to things...I'm on medication but I gotta wake up to take it and half the time I can't manage it 😭 I hate the feeling of wasting half the day but don't know how to stop...
The only solution I have found to this in my own life is using apps like Alarmy (I use the free version) which allows you to set a 'challenge' you have to complete before the alarm will turn off.
For me this challenge is to scan the barcode of the soap bottle in my bathroom. Because I HAVE to be on my feet in the bathroom for it to stop I can't instantly fall asleep again or turn it off accidently. I keep my meds near the soap bottle so that the next steps of my routine (take meds, get in shower) happen before I have actually processed that I am awake.
By the time I get out of the shower my meds have kicked in, I'm clean, and I'm a semi-functioning, mostly conscious human once more!! Then the prospect of nice cereal gets me down the stairs.
