what happens to a person who goes without sleep for a week and a half (serious)?
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they will get sleep deprived and become very weak maybe faint
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According to a recent study, one sleepless night sabotages creativity and coping skills. Without sleep, the "walking wounded" are less spontaneous, flexible and original. Unable to break out of intellectual ruts or come up with a fresh perspective, they become rigid, stick to tried-and-true approaches to problems and can't deal with unfamiliar situations. If they concentrate hard enough, they can perform routine tasks or well-known, well defined emergencies--unless they lose a second night of sleep. Then even performance of mundane or familiar chores suffers. \n\nChronic insomniacs have more problems getting started in the morning than normal sleepers and often feel so exhausted after work that they forego leisure activities and social engagements. The stress of trying to perform well despite their sleeplessness may lead to depression and other psychological problems. Individuals with chronic sleep problems that cause excessive daytime drowsiness, such as the breathing disorder called sleep apnea, may have so much difficulty with attention, concentration or memory that they perform as if their IQs were ten points lower than they actually are. \n\nDisrupted sleep and sleep disorder cost business as much as $70 billion annually in lost productivity, industrial accidents and higher medical bills, according to the Institute for Circadian Physiology in Boston. Sometimes the toll is even higher. Falling asleep at the wheel is second only to alcohol as a cause of car accidents. In all, 200,000 to 400,000 collisions involving drowsy drivers occur each year and claim as many as 6,500 lives. \n\nThe best solution may be the most obvious: more and better sleep. In a study at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, sleep researchers found that healthy people who slept just one additional hour felt better, became more alert and performed better on the job. Their conclusion: "Ideally, you should sleep until you're slept out. You should awaken spontaneously without an alarm clock and feel fresh and vital in the daytime." \n\nfor the sake of better sleep: \n\n1. Keep regular hours. The best way to ensure perfect nights is to stick to a regular schedule. If you sleep late one morning and rise before dawn the next, you can come down with a home-bound version of jet lag. To keep your biological clock in sync, get up at the same time, regardless of how much or how little you've slept. \nTry to stick close to your usual sleep schedule on weekends and holidays as well as workdays. If you stay up late on Friday and Saturday nights and sleep-in the following mornings you may give yourself a case of "Sunday-night insomnia": You get to bed early to be bright eyed on Monday morning and try to sleep, but you can't. The harder you try, the more wakeful you feel. When travel or work throws of your routine, try to maintain some semblance of regularity. Eat your meals at the same times you normally do. Try to get some sleep during your usual bedtime hours. And return to your normal schedule as soon as you can. \n\n2. Exercise regularly. Exercise enhances sleep by burning off the tensions that accumulate during the day, allowing both the body and mind to unwind. While the fit seem to sleep better and deeper than the flabby, you don't have to push to utter exhaustion. A 20 to 30 minute walk, jog, swim or bicycle ride at least three days a week--the minimum for cardiovascular benefits--should be your goal. \nBut don't wait too late in the day to exercise. In the evening, you should be concentrating on winding down rather than working up a sweat. And don't expect early-morning exercise to have any impact on the tensions that build up during the day. The ideal exercise time is late afternoon or early evening, when your workout can help you shift gears from daytime pressures to evening pleasures. \n3. Cut down on stimulants. North Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day and get extra doses in tea, cola
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don't know about that, but I know it can affect your mood and how well you react the next day.  You actually need proper amount of rest.
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I have a friend who once stayed up for 4 consecutive nights. By the end of it, he was in pretty bad shape.
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No, it's not "ok".  You're not giving your body the rest it needs to recuperate and heal and eventually you will have sleep deprivation.  The average person needs at least 8 hours a night...some a little more.  Sleep deprivation can cause a lot of health problems, so get some more shut eye for your own sake.  Now go take a nap!  Godloveya.
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not unless their sleep walking is putting them in danger. Sleep walking is actually a common and not abnormal behavior unless the person walks outside in traffic or tries cooking on the stove or something weird like that.\n\nhttp://familydoctor.org/160.xml
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A person that needs nine hours of sleep a night.
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A very clumsy person.  See, the narcolepcy would cause them to collapse or their head to drop to their desk in an effort to get them to fall asleep.  Only since they are an insomniac they'd never really succeed at the actual falling asleep part.  So they'd end up just collapsing and hitting their head a lot without every really having fallen asleep.  They'd be the most "clumsy" person you know constantly falling for no reason.
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That person has depression.  There are medications that person can take.  Have that person see a doctor.
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About four or five days. After that, he starts to hallucinate if forced to stay awake and if not forced to stay awake he will just fall asleep.
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Ideally you should get 7-8 hours of sleep. Sleep deprivation leads to hypertension (high blood presure), depression, not functioning at your full level. If you must get by on little amounts of sleep, 20minute naps can be very refreshing if you can find that time. Make sure you are taking a multivitamin and if you are extremely tired try a caffeine pill but beware when that wears off you will suddenly be extremely tired and your body will crash. 6 hours of sleep a night is minimum. YOu can actually die from exhaustion from not getting enough sleep. Psychologists have done studies that have shown different levels of sleep  deprivation have lead to psychosis and have even resembled people that should be put in a mental health unit.
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Although it depends to some extent on age, scientists say just about eight hours per night is the minimum to remain healthy and alert. The effects of sleep depravation include short term memory loss and impaired reflexes and motor skills, so heads up for that if you go  on living at five per night. \n\nI'm a college student, so I feel you on that one. :p
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cannot eat and sleep. keep thinking about him.
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yes you can but it sucks.........your brain re charges after 4 hours of sleep, the other 4 are for your body, but your body can function on a half charge, so if you sleep roughly 4 hours a night that's all you really need to keep from getting nerve disorders and shit like that witch will kill you, Ive heard that a person will die if they go more than 4 days straight with out sleeping. Also, I dint know how long they would go but I have heard the Nazi's would force Jewish prisoners to work until they died from exhaustion.  \n\nI myself have conditioned myself to the point that I could stay awake while driving after 4 and a half hours sleep each night for a week, but the tax it in poses on the body is not cool. After about a year and a half I became allergic to the sun, doc. said that it was because one of my origins was increasing the out put of some long named chemical that I cant pronounce or come close to spelling, all thanks to a lack of sleep. my doc. recommended at least 6 hours of sleep each night, I sleep 6-7 hours and stay healthy
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G'day abouterachess,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nDolphins sleep with half their brain switched on and with one eye open. They breathe normally as they are above water. They cannot breather until they are conscious.They decide to take naps at various times of the day and their body shuts down. They sleep for eight hours a day on and off. They have very little if any REM sleep associated with dreaming.\n\nThey have various options for sleeping namely:\n\na) swimming slowly and surfacing every now and then for a breath; or\n\nb) rest at the surface with their blowhole exposed; or\n\nc) sleeping at the bottom in shallow water and rising now and again to breathe.\n\nI have attached sources for your reference.\n\nRegards
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I have an aunt that has been diagnosed for years. What I would recommend is going to www.webmd.com to show you the kind of behavior you are in for if you choose to stay (which I wouldn't recommend, at least until he is stabilized)Bi-polars without medication can stay up for days, even weeks and can reach a state of insomniatic psychosis where they can become violent to themselves or others. They can also slip into a deep depression where they can't find an reason to get out of bed, or complete the simplest task to take care of themselves. Suicide is in greater numbers among this psychological diagnoses. I would recommend slipping into more of a friendship role, because if you don't you are in for the roller-coaster ride of your life.
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just in case of emergencies\nand what if the guy has to go to rest room?