Sleep deprivation can have serious health consequences, including inflammation, thyroid imbalances, ihibited prefrontal cortex with increased adrenaline secretion, depression, long-term memory impairment, stroke, heart disease, hypertension, weight gain, diabetes, and death
Because sleep deprivation leaves no marks and is believed to break a detainee's will, the tactic has been adopted by government and security forces.
Once you are up all night, by mid-afternoon, it becomes unbearable, You can do it, but it’s really torture.
• In The Gulag Archipelago, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn lists sleeplessness as one of 31 methods that his captors used to break a prisoner’s will. “Sleeplessness befogs the reason, undermines the will, and the human being ceases to be himself, to be his own ‘I,’” Solzhenitsyn writes. He says that guards in the gulag kept prisoners awake for up to five days by perpetually standing them up or by kicking them when their eyes drooped. The author quotes an inmate who endured this, listing his many symptoms, including chills, eyes “dried out as if someone were holding a red-hot iron in front of them,” a swollen and prickling tongue and a throat racked with spasms. “Sleeplessness was a great form of torture: it left no visible marks and could not provide grounds for complaint even if an inspection—something unheard of anyway—were to strike on the morrow,” Solzhenitsyn writes.
• Because sleep deprivation “leaves no marks” and is believed to break a detainee’s will, across the world, the tactic has been adopted by government and security forces, notably by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s. Most notoriously, sleep deprivation has been used on several prisoners at the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. sleep deprivation works well as an interrogation technique, because it breaks down detainees’ ability to resist coercion, and because it decreases prisoners’ tolerance for physical pain. • While we sleep, the blood stream is cleared of a substance that researchers call “substance S.” Many believe substance S is adenosine, a byproduct of energy production that cells release into the blood throughout waking hours. Without sleep, the blood gets clogged with substance S, slowing a person down from head to toe. • Mood and sleep use the same neurotransmitters. It’s very hard to tell if someone has sleep loss or depression. When these neurotransmitters are disrupted by sleep loss, the chemical changes in the brain can also result in manic feelings and behavior similar to bi-polar disorder: high highs of ecstasy and low lows of depression and anger. • While a person sleeps, our cells undergo a cycle of repair that provides both oxygen and glucose. When a person stays up all night, the brain’s cells are denied the products of this cycle, severely hampering the organs’ reactions to stimuli and instructions. “Every cell in our body needs food and it produces waste, so all those things occur in a regular, regimented way when we’ve slept well. And when we interfere with that, systems go out of sync.
• If you stay up until 3 a.m., you might get very cold, clarifying that sleep helps to regulate your body temperature.
*At the beginning: • small and large motor function majorly impaired • poor hearing, seeing, speaking, coordination, or no balance • short-term memory loss • inability to concentrate • impaired perception • reduced cognitive processing speed • slurred speech • slowed thinking
*As the deprivation increases, so do the following: • More anxious • agitation • anger • prone to errors • misinterpret social cues • euphoria • inability to regulate stress and emotions • blurry or double vision.
*Next
• depersonalization • sadness and/or depression • loss of time • appearing unemotional/withdrawn • slurred speech • stuttering • repetitive words or actions • improper use of words or backwards speech • talking in sleep • jolting out of bed • extreme fatigue • droopy eye(s) • Highly reactive to any perception of pain, • Every type of Allodynia including Dynamic, Bilateral, Static, or Thermal • Headaches/Migraines • Extreme sensitivity to sound/lights • outbursts of anger • thoughts of suicide • Heart Palpatations • Chest Pains • Panic Attacks • Night Terrors • Fear of Dying in your Sleep • Psychosis
*What Chronic Sleep Deprivation Does To Your Body: • It leads to premature death • Acid Reflux • GERD • Overactive Gag reflexes • Overactive deep tendon reflexes • Sluggish Corneal reflexes • High Blood Pressure • weak immune system • sleep apnea • Dry Skin • hair thinning and loss of hair • nausea • eye spasms • cold hands and feet • anxiety • brain fog • high respiratory rate • constipation/diarrhea • headaches • Extreme sensitivity to sounds • Affects your body temperature and creates sensitivity to hot and cold temperatures • infertility • low sex drive or erectile dysfunction • epilepsy • seizures • pressure pain • Increased C-reactive protein causing heart inflammation and damages the lining and leads to hardening/narrowed vessels atherosclerosis, strokes, and heart attack. • It takes a toll on your mood and can lead to emotional instability, depression, and inability to cope, thoughts of suicide, etc. • It affects your brains memory, repair, and functioning which makes you likely to develop memory problems and conditions like dementia. Especially for people suffering from it in their 40s and up. • Metabolism dysfunction leading to glucose intolerance and weight gain that can lead to diabetes. • Inflammation • Chronic Pain • Fibromyalgia • Type II Diabetes Insulin Resistance • Obesity • Cancer • Depression • Stroke • Heart Attack
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