How long does it take before your brain adjust to a new sleep schedule?
I probably have some sort of delayed sleep phase syndrome although I'm not professionally diagnosed yet. For me, is it normal that my schedule shifts a bit in the spring, but this year it was way more intense. I have not yet recovered from the Daylight Saving Time change and I also had a very rough week when I needed to constantly get up earlier than I'm used to. I also needed to use Ambien because of that. I thought that this week I will recover from it, but it didn't happen yet, because in the meantime I started to use red glasses at night. They work but they shifted my schedule even earlier and now my brain can't cope with that at all. When we counted the Daylight Saving Time, my sleep schedule shifted like 3 hours earlier. I can sleep like 7-8 hours a day, but my brain is still "jet-lagged". I also have constant mild illusory palinopsia (I take Mirtazapine and Trazodone and that what happens when I sleep poorly or out of my normal biorythm), but now I am sleep deprived even on days I thought I slept well. I don't want to really return to my previous sleep schedule (4-5 AM to 12-1 PM) of the "winter time") when I am experiencing this ordeal for a month already, but... isn't this like too long? Shouldn't I be already adjusted or it's way more tricky for a neurodivergent person with suspected DSPD? Or should I try to go back to my original sleep schedule? What to do now?