I start feeling superficially better if I spend one night not sleeping. I say superficailly because mania symptoms start and I take that as “feeling better” when really its a lie. Because that “feeing better” just gets more and more extreme until I crash.

I can go one day without meds and sleeping and be “fine” but not really. I start deteriorating and I have a hard time finding when Ive gone too far.

So it doesnt help me. But of course, everyones different. But going without sleep is definitely destabilizing to me.