ADHD and Insomnia: Why Your Brain Won’t Sleep | BC CBT-I
If you have ADHD and have struggled to sleep your whole life, the problem probably isn’t your habits. Research now points to three neurobiological mechanisms — circadian phase delay, dopamine-related arousal dysregulation, and pre-sleep cognitive hyperarousal — that make sleep genuinely harder with ADHD, and a treatment that addresses all three.
Graeme Thompson, RCC
December 3, 2025
