Managing Sleep Deprivation in High School

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Start date Feb 18, 2014
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The discussion centers around a high school junior struggling with sleep deprivation due to a heavy workload and extracurricular commitments. The individual typically gets only 4-6 hours of sleep on school nights, relying on long weekend naps to catch up. Participants emphasize the importance of sleep for health and academic performance, advising against the use of caffeine, particularly in the evening, and suggesting better time management strategies. They discuss the unsustainability of current habits and the need to prioritize sleep, suggesting that dropping less critical activities could alleviate pressure. The conversation also touches on the commonality of these struggles among students today and the potential long-term consequences of chronic sleep deprivation. Overall, the consensus is that while managing multiple commitments is challenging, ensuring adequate sleep is crucial for overall well-being and academic success.

Feb 23, 2014

lendav_rott

Go to bed at 10 at night. You are probably not doing anything imperative to schoolwork at the late hours - so screw facebook and twitter and youtube and forums and... Chew on some carrot, go walk outside and go to bed tired. You don't need 11 hours of sleep, you probably need a bit more than 7 - perhaps 7.5-8h. The reason you feel like a zombie is you don't use your time correctly.

This enormous workload isn't enormous at all, I had to work hard as well in year10-12, what do you think 99% of the students did after school? Home -> FB/entertainment, watching stupid s* in 9gag and then complaining like there was no tomorrow about how much work there is to do and blabla. By the end of the 1st year, most us learned to use the time properly.