I need more sleep than most people and I always have. So after a few days of five hours of sleep I'm usually an irritable mess. The longest I ever stayed up was 24 hours, during which I was hospitalized for who knows what. I think I was committed that time. I remember being so pissed because when I got to the hospital it was like 4am and I wanted to sleep so bad but my roommate started having a very loud conversation with herself (presumably her voices but I couldn't tell because she was speaking Hindi), so I just got up and paced until they offered me Ativan.

That was the worst and now I take Benadryl if I can't sleep. I hate lying awake.