Hello, i am a nineteen year old male who's sleep pattern is inevitably completely askew, in the sense that i am completely nocturnal.

If allowed, it appears that my natural sleep pattern is falling asleep around 10:00am - 13:00pm and waking up from 18:00pm - 02:00 am..Give or take a few hours.

Other than this my sleeping itself seems to be normal for a teenager. In such that i get around 6-14 hours of pretty much unbroken sleep, with no other abnormal occurrences.

I have tried getting my sleeping pattern in order though all the obvious means:
- Stratigicly placed alarm clocks
- Not sleeping for a day, then going to bed at a normal time
- Exercise to tire me out
- Drinking a lot to make me pass out
Etc.

None of this works; within a day i will, without fail revert back to my 'normal' sleeping pattern.

If dragged out of bed (and i mean literally dragged) and forced to stay awake i find it absolutely impossible to function like a real person, i will be exhausted for the rest of the day, become extremely irritable and will seek out any excuse to go back to bed.

This has become an escalating problem for a number of years as i have always found it very difficult to sleep at a conventional time, but in the past year it has seemed to have peaked. According to my mother, as a small child like-thing i had a lot of trouble sleeping too.

I've done the whole 'teenage angst life isn't worth living' thing and it got very boring, and i doubt i'm actually depressed as i don't feel sad. However i don't feel happy. I smoke with no intentions of giving up, and i've been known to get anxiety attacks in social situations.


This has become akin to torture for me, and has destroyed what speck of a social life i had before this was a mere annoyance. I rarely see the light of day (especially in winter) and actual human interaction has now been limited too a brief few hours of forced convosation with my parents.

Any help/advice/orders are more than welcome, and i'd like to know if this is something attributed to being a morbid teenager or something more interesting.

Thanks.