*Autistic Shutdowns collection* - Do you experience these ?

I had a nervous breakdown beginning of 2018.

I hadn't slept for 5 days, my mother was in the hospital, she had an epileptic seizure in my house on christmas day. I felt an enormous pressure on me to make sure my mother was well taken care of. During the five days lots of things happened and some things really raised my eyebrows...

To keep a long story short, after five days of not sleeping and noticing weird behaviour in my niece and in my brother in law, I collapsed. I wanted to fill out paperwork to have my mother's 'estate' handled by a third party, but I just couldn't focus on this... and I got into a panic, thought I was also epileptic... 

A very strange thing is that the fourth day of not sleeping, I was very frightened about going alone down in the house in the middle of the night. I also started to imagine that I needed to be careful not to frighten myself ... my daughter went to a party and she brought home a borrowed black laced dress... It hung in the garage. I imagined if I would come down the stairs at night, I might mistake that as a sighting of an evil spirit... so I put that dress away and explained this to my wife...

When you don't sleep for several days, your mind starts to do really strange things, ideas that were trivial on day one seem to be still around on day four and their significance becomes out of proportion... 

Lesson learned: if you don't sleep for three nights, seek help, it can really lead to dangerous situations...

I had a nervous breakdown beginning of 2018.

I hadn't slept for 5 days, my mother was in the hospital, she had an epileptic seizure in my house on christmas day. I felt an enormous pressure on me to make sure my mother was well taken care of. During the five days lots of things happened and some things really raised my eyebrows...

To keep a long story short, after five days of not sleeping and noticing weird behaviour in my niece and in my brother in law, I collapsed. I wanted to fill out paperwork to have my mother's 'estate' handled by a third party, but I just couldn't focus on this... and I got into a panic, thought I was also epileptic... 

A very strange thing is that the fourth day of not sleeping, I was very frightened about going alone down in the house in the middle of the night. I also started to imagine that I needed to be careful not to frighten myself ... my daughter went to a party and she brought home a borrowed black laced dress... It hung in the garage. I imagined if I would come down the stairs at night, I might mistake that as a sighting of an evil spirit... so I put that dress away and explained this to my wife...

When you don't sleep for several days, your mind starts to do really strange things, ideas that were trivial on day one seem to be still around on day four and their significance becomes out of proportion... 

Lesson learned: if you don't sleep for three nights, seek help, it can really lead to dangerous situations...

yea lack of sleep is truely dangerous. We dont appreciate what sleep does to keep us sane  .

https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-sleep/how-long-can-you-go-without-sleep