Hello and welcome to session two of Stimuli’s Speaking About Sleeping with me Ellie Sturrock. In this session we will follow up as we talked last time. In ADHD there are predominantly two major issues. Getting to bed caused by slightly reversed day night patterns, finding it difficult to achieve tasks and getting too sleep because of what we call revenge procrastination, worrying again could be about the tasks we've put off.

There are some disorders that have sleep problems in them that are worthy of looking at in a different way and there are treatments for all of these. It's also really worth saying that if you have very poor sleep, not sleeping for very long and you are so tired that you're falling asleep, say, at the wheel of a car, then that is the time to go and seek support from your GP.

And there are medications for sleep. If you're on meds then a GP will want to work out the best meds for you. So that's important to take a look at. If you have low mood, if you are waking early in the morning, if you are experiencing suicidal ideation, then sleep, your poor sleep could be connected to depression. And that would be worthy of, again, seeing a GP about, a talking therapy service. So that is treatable, and the sleep will get better when the depression gets better.

Equally, in sleep that is punctuated by nightmares related to a traumatic event that you've experienced, that could be a sign that you're suffering from PTSD. And again, PTSD can be treated using different psychological strategies, and it would be worth discussing that with your GP and a talking therapy service. There are also physical experiences, so if you have restless legs, you can use magnesium spray, has been found useful by some people, you can see your GP about that, there is a simple strategy where you swing your legs out of bed and you push, tap them, stamp your feet on the floor and it aligns nerves in the lower legs.

But if you don't get any relief from that then it can be worth seeking support. Equally. If you have a problem with snoring, if you have a partner that tells you snore, especially if you snore and then there are spaces of quiet and then there's a catching of breath, that can be something called sleep apnea.

And that can be related to people with weight problems, but not always. And again, that is worth taking to your GP and there are aids that you can use that keep your nostrils open and also your body position in bed can be useful to look at. So lying on your side means that your epiglottis is not going to fall back into your throat. It's harder for it to do that.

So those are the things that are worth seeing your GP about. You can still use the strategies that are here, but because there are such successful treatments for the things mentioned here, then it's really worth seeing your GP about those.

Okay, meet you again for session three on Speaking about Sleeping.