Lack of sleep makes my mood extremely unstable, mainly in the downward direction. When sleep deprived, pretty much any negative stimulus will affect me many times more than if the same thing happened when I was well rested. When I’m tired, I feel “blah”: fuzzy-brained, slow, and stupid. Is this the feeling that to you feels like sadness? (To me, sadness has a “clarity” that sleepiness doesn’t, and feeling sad tends to make my thinking sharper, albeit negative). I need about 8 to 9 hours of sleep per night; 2 nights in a row of sub-7 hour sleep, and my moods become completely unpredictable.
Lack of sleep makes my mood extremely unstable, mainly in the downward direction. When sleep deprived, pretty much any negative stimulus will affect me many times more than if the same thing happened when I was well rested. When I’m tired, I feel “blah”: fuzzy-brained, slow, and stupid. Is this the feeling that to you feels like sadness? (To me, sadness has a “clarity” that sleepiness doesn’t, and feeling sad tends to make my thinking sharper, albeit negative). I need about 8 to 9 hours of sleep per night; 2 nights in a row of sub-7 hour sleep, and my moods become completely unpredictable.