I sleep 10 hours a night but still need to nap constantly during the day. Even 400 mg of caffeine doesn't buzz me, it just makes me feel 70% close to my normal, high energy 20s self. My daytime fatigue is so severe I've been mistaken for being drunk (even though I don't drink), and I experience a dream like brain fog around friends unless I use caffeine pills to seem present.
I know this is part of normal aging for a woman in her 30s, but it's frustrating to constantly need naps when I haven't even done anything. Sometimes you just have to biohack. Still, I feel a bit jealous of how men age differently and seem to keep loads of energy.
My wife’s ADHD got diagnosed in her late thirties because she hadn’t shown clear symptoms before. She had very good coping mechanisms, but to small children rendered those useless, because she had no energy left to compensate. Living with undiagnosed ADHD can build up a burden in the first quarter of your life, that you suddenly start to feel in your thirties. You wouldn’t be the first one. ADHD in women oftentimes doesn’t look like the cliché. (That’s why women are underdiagnosed) If you should try Adderall and it makes you feel awake, present and focused, but not pumped up and buzzing with energy, that would be another hint.