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I tend to sleep for six hour intervals, then stay awake for a long time. Sometimes I sleep during the day and am awake during the night. The days are blending together and there is really no boundary between them, I only really notice the passing of the days when I start getting withdrawal from the Effexor and remember I have to take it. My memory is horrible, I rarely eat and often feel nausea when I am tired or two hungry. This has been on and off for close to two months and it seems like just as soon as I get myself on track I'm spun out of control again by my dad taking me to a late BBQ with family, or us going to see a movie, anything that keeps me out of the house past bed time.

Does anyone have any idea how I could go about making a schedule or something, so that I can keep myself on track? Better yet, anyone got some oddball ideas to help me remember this schedule/remind me that it's time to switch out of what I'm doing? If I don't get "distracted" from what I'm doing, I can get sucked into it and forget to eat and drink, ect. until it's urgent. I'm not really in distress I just thought other aspies might has some ideas that I haven't tried yet.

(If you can't tell I'm on the end of a long awake period so I'm extremely tired and my mind is a very disorganized place)

What you're describing honestly sounds like depression.

There are ways to keep a schedule, one is to build a routine. Literally live several aspects of your life in an orderly fashion.

Write a list:

Want to go out for a run every day for 30 minutes at 6pm?

Watch tv for an hour or 2? 1-3pm

Do your homework/college work from 3-6pm?

Do your hair or take a bath at 9pm?

Put the list by your bed, look at it and slap yourself (not hard) if you choose to ignore it.

I have very similar problems, so these are some of the things i'm going to try as well.

I have depression, but this is constant in the last bit, not just during my depressive phases. Thanks for the ideas! I will try them.