What are the effects of sleep deprivation?!
Question: What are the effects of sleep deprivation?
I've been getting very little sleep each day and it's mostly Monday-Friday because that's when I have school.
I've reached the point once where I had mild hallucinations before, I just did not do my homework for a few days and I slept because it scared me to death.
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Sleep deprivation to the extent where it causes hallucination is a serious thing. You need to talk to your parents and maybe see a sleep specialist to get things sorted.
Lack of sleep can cause mental impairment, loss of concentration, muscle fatigue, depression, irritability and headaches.
More severely it can cause heart problems, blood pressure problems, increased risk of diabetes, psychosis, tremors and mental confusion.
There is a reason why sleep deprivation is used as torture. Everyone needs both long wave (deep sleep) and REM sleep to function normally. There is a rare condition that prevents the patients brain from going into REM sleep. It is fatal after 4 months.
I'm not trying to scare you, I am just answering your question, but I think it's important you get help.
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Part Psychology degree
You get irritable, lightheaded, hallucinate, forget things, stress your body organs.
You are changing your biochemical functions. The brain contols the whole system and you are messing with its fiunction.
Do you mess with your cars computer, hell no, you'd **** something up. Got the idea.
Yeh you will get hallucinations. And your heart beat will increase because its working over time because you don't give it a rest and you could have a heart attack, you will lose concentration and make silly mistakes at school
try to exercise more, it will not just keep you in shape but help u sleep better
http://www.sleepnet.com/depriv.htm
Try that.
And talk to your teachers/parents about this. Get more sleep!!