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Sleep Deprivation, Disorders, and Drugs

Shay Silvia

psy/240

February 6, 2011

Sleep Deprivation, Disorders, and Drugs

I find that I have experience many situations where I suffer from not getting enough sleep. I have been diagnosed with bipolar and anxiety because of these disorders I have had many nights of sleep deprivation. My reasoning for this because when I start to get depressed for some reason and I am trying to go to sleep, my anxiety takes over and prevents me from sleeping the normal 8 hours I should be sleeping.( John P. J. Pinel.) Then the continuous lack of sleep triggers the manic episodes.

Now because I have bipolar and anxiety my moods and behaviors are a little off. When you add sleep deprivation to the mixture and my moods, behaviors, and disorders intensify. The most recent time that I can remember that I suffered from sleep deprivation was when I found out someone close to me was lying to me. When this accrued I had trouble falling sleeping for a week. Here is the basic mood, behavior, and cognitive and motor skills that happened during my week of no sleep. The first night I didn't sleep wasn’t really that bad the next morning and throughout the day I was tired, clumsy, and irritable. The second night I didn't sleep it got a little worse, my concentration and lack of judgment were in effect. I started making careless mistakes on things I have been doing every day for a while. For example I was making my son dinner and ended up burning it. Another example is I had a psychology paper due and I carelessly forgot to read and follow the basic directions on how to set up the paper the correct way. Now my manic was getting really out of hand. The third day the manic side of my bipolar took place. I was moving uncontrollably. I was rocking back and forth every time I sat down and try and relax. I became very impulsive on everything I did that day. Whereas normally I would set up a list on what I wanted to happen and thing...