You are late to office today and got a lecture from the boss. So you tell yourself you are going to sleep on time and wake up early tomorrow. After all, they say ‘Early to bed. Early to rise’ is the norm. You try hard the whole day to finish everything earlier than usual and get into bed at the targeted time. You are happy.

Many of us have faced this situation or know someone who faces it regularly. While most of us think, this is a problem with discipline, it might be case of Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder. It is a chronic dysregulation of a person’s biological clock, compared to the general population and relative to societal norms.

People who are diagnosed with DSPD face a difficulty functioning in accepted social settings like school or work. Unlike people with insomnia, people with DSPD do fall asleep on their own. Just a little later than everyone else making it difficult for them to fit in socially.

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