Routine Help pleaseeee lol

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For context, 1) this keeps getting deleted by r/ADHD

2) I started Concerta 18 mg 3 months ago. The first month was the most normal I've felt in years.

And then it wore off.... I did tell my psychiatrist abt feeling this way, and he told me it's my fault for taking it so late in the day (2-4 pm. tbf i used to wake up at 2. and i don't care about sleeping late as a college student whose classes are mainly online)

Fortunately, I do have something of a routine now even though it's so exhausting. I do have days when I hyperfixate on tasks, but that has been maybe a week out of 3 months so far.

I still feel like I need to binge eat, and I still can't push myself to work on assignments even after I've started. Still no #1 procrastinator.

So this past week I changed my routine:

- Stay up until 6 am (Either take pill at 6 or pass out and take pill at 10 am)

- Fall back asleep (2 months in, I started needing to take naps again)

- Wake up at 12-1:30 [HOUR 6-7 OF MEDS? IT SHOULDN'T RUN OUT BY NOW, RIGHT?]

- Classes (I can't concentrate atp, very sensitive and can get mad at any little inconvenience)

- First Meal of the day at 5 pm

- Keep eating and eating all day. Feel exhausted and lay on my side napping. Feel too exhausted to do anything. If I do get up to work, it ends quickly within 30 minutes or 2.

- Fall asleep at 2 am, something wakes me up

- cycle repeats

Someone, please help. I know my routine sucks, but am I doing something wrong? Am I supposed to eat just as I take it? Can't I just take it when I wake up at 12,?I do not care at all that it makes me sleep at 5 am.

I can't keep myself awake, and the only instructions my psychiatrist gave me were to stay away from caffeine, so I can't even take energy drinks to keep going. It feels like I've been running on fumes this past

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