Sleep deprived driving Puns

So for me personally, any time I get under 7 hours asleep I noticed a difference. But the nights I get 6 or less are the absolute worst. These days the anxiety can get so bad that I literally am shaking a good majority of the day. Also my negative self talk is just out of control these days. Ive just gotten to the point of telling myself all day long on these days to not believe the thoughts coming into my head and its only cause i havent slept. If i dont repeatedly tell myself that it can really drag me into a dark mindset. It goes away once I finally get some good sleep (generally the next night, maybe the following).

I have issues with these things normally, but sleep deprived is a whole other level.

Anyone else experience this?

Hello, I was just wondering whether it's safe to ride a motorcycle or drive a car when you're sleep deprived. I've heard of people who got into an accident because they were so sleep deprived. So those of you who are sleep deprived most of the time do you drive frequently? If so have you ever gotten into an accident?

....was putting in two different online orders for household things and bought *checks boxes* 3 tubes of hemorrhoid ointment.

Okay so this happened a few months ago and I did know this sub existed until recently so I decided here was the best place to finally get this off my chest. So for some backstory I'm a member of the United States Army National Guard so I drill one weekend a month and 2 weeks in the summer. If a disaster occurs we'll be called in to help. Another thing you should know is I suffer from stress induced insomnia. If something I'm super worried about is happening the next day I'll always lose quite a bit of sleep. With all this I can tell the story So I got a call a day before drill that we were going on disaster duty and it was the first one I'd ever gone on and I was worried about what I'd be doing and all that stuff. So obviously I got read but them got very little sleep about 2 hours. I also hadn't gotten much sleep at all during.the week because it had been really busy. So I arrive at my unit sleep deprived but functional, at least I thought I'd be fine. So we have to drive the military vehicles down to the headquarters for relief and we'd go from there. Just so you are aware two people are always required in a military vehicle for safety. So me and my partner get our assigned vehicle ready and head off and I'm driving first. This whole trip is about 5 hours. So the drive to the first test stop doesn't go well for me. My exhaustion hits me like a truck and I'm barely able to keep myself awake behind the wheel, even with my partner I'm struggling. We arrive at the rest stop, about an hour and a half into the drive, and I stretch my legs and try to wake up and my partner buys me an energy drink, energy drinks don't do it for me but I accepted it anyways. He insists we switch places and he drives. Well with the drink I of course don't feel anymore awake and struggle to stay awake and he knows I'm struggling so he drives for the rest of the way and asks to switch once but I know I'll run us off the road in my state so I decline. Once we finally arrive my partner basically gets mad at me saying he was also super tired from working before he had to come to drill and I feel bad and he turns quite a few people to his side. I understand he was tired but I was as well and I could barely stay awake, while he was able to drive pretty well and didn't nearly run us off the road while I nearly did multiple times during turn driving. So Reddit am I the asshole?

I'm 18y/o and a pretty new driver which is adding to my worry, and I have to drive to work but I'm scared of crashing due to being sleep deprived. I cant miss work because I'm going to work for my mum's business for the day and I've let her down too many times in the past so she said this is the last straw - what do I do? how can I make myself more awake? would that even help?

My son is 4 years old and generally a joyful, confident funny and beautiful little person.

He's a joy to be around (for the most part) until it comes to bedtime. From the age of 3 until a few months ago, he would sleep for 10 to 11 hours, straight through, in his own room, no complaints. For about 5 months now he hates going to bed, tries every trick in the book to delay things, and also gets up anywhere from 1 to 5 times a night, crying and saying he doesn't want to be on his own and he's scared. We have talked about what he's actually scared of, and so far, nothing material has come of it. He just doesn't like being on his own.

We have a good bedtime schedule, no screens before bed, we read a story, I sit with him for 15 minutes and usually he falls asleep. If I'm not in the room he room he gets out of bed to come downstairs. I bring him back, rinse and repeat up to a dozen times (by this point it's WAY past his bedtime, and nearly mine, he's over tired and I haven't had an evening to myself.

When he finally does go to sleep, he will wake up in the middle of the night, multiple times, to come find me. If I'm lucky I get around 3 hours unbroken sleep a night, with a few winks in between his "visits".

I wake up tired, super fucking grumpy, and generally not a very lovely person. I also work a demanding full time job.

Other complications: his father and I are divorced, and my son spends 2 to 3 nights a week with his dad, where the rules are somewhat relaxed... in addition, his dad is moving to a new house where my son will not have his own bedroom and will share with his father. We live in an expensive city where rents are sky high, so it would be very difficult for my ex to afford and extra bedroom (and he is sharing with 2 other friends (who I know and trust) so already a 3 bed place). I am not happy about this, but not much I can do as it's my ex's choice.

Any advice please reddit? Do I just keep reinforcing taking him back to his room even though it hasn't had any effect for 5 months? Do I insist that his father also reinforces this and my son needs his own room?

But I just don’t know the rest

I've lost count how many apartments I've toured by now, trying to find that seemingly nonexistent place where I'll actually be able to live/sleep in peace and focus on the things I want. I'm talking about noise from neighbors here.

Note that I'm not complaining about external noise, like sirens and cars from outside, etc. This is purely about noises from my immediate neighbors above and beside me.

Some people will say something like, "That's apartment living." or "That's what it's like living in the city." NO, that's not how it has to be. I've lived in an apartment in the city my whole life (not Seattle) and haven't ever had to deal with something like this.

At the risk of competing with others for a unit here later on, I found a building in Capitol Hill called Sola24 where they advertise soundproofing as one of their flagship qualities. Just take a look at their website and read about the detail into which they put into soundproofing their building. And they cost the same or less than other places!

The problem is, they only have a whole 23 units. Why is this the ONLY place I've managed to find so far that does anything remotely close to this? It doesn't even look like what they did to soundproof would cost that much, compared to all the flashy vanity bullshit virtually every other place has. If it sounds like I'm fed up, it's because I am.

I like Seattle, I really, really do. I have no complaints about anything else here, not the weather, not the "freeze", not even the homeless. But holy fuck, why are the apartments here built so fucking shittily. Fuck.

So far this week I’ve:

• Left tv remote in fridge
• Accidentally put baby formula in the freezer
• left groceries in my unlocked car for over an hour after taking my son inside the house
• put baby clothes to wash without actually putting it in the washer 😅
• and this morning my son woke up while I was in the middle of shaving and greeted my neighbor’s outside when i was getting my mail w/o realizing my face still had shaving cream

Anyways my son’s grandma on his mom’s side is finally coming over to help and I can finally have some sleep

Guys, please help.

It’s been months since my daughter would reliably sleep in her own bed all night. There is no known trigger for the change, but there you have it.

We have a bedtime routine that takes 30 to 60 minutes. Reading, music, etc. We use a relaxing essential oil. I have consulted her doctor, who says to, and I quote, “Make her stay in her room even if she cries.” (How this plays out: She pulls on and hits her bedroom door, screaming and crying that she’s scared of spiders or death or “people looking at her,” and I stand there holding the door closed until her older sister emerges from her room and says now she can’t sleep. I relent. Rinse and repeat.) She’s been in talk therapy for this issue for about three months now, and although she claims she LIKES to talk to her therapist, I’m seeing no effect on her sleep patterns.

I am at wit’s end.

Coincidentally (?), I just started a higher dosage of my antidepressant, which has made it harder for me to get to sleep myself. And once I’m woken up (by my child whispering creepily that she caaaaan’t sleeeep), it’s incredibly hard for me to fall back to sleep.

An hour ago, I snapped and screamed at her to “go the fuck to sleep somewhere and fucking stay there.”

I am not well. I don’t know what to do.

37 weeks and EXHAUSTED. Haven’t gotten real sleep in probably a month. I’ve been laying here for hours and decided to give up and scroll my damn phone. So I came to my favorite Reddit page to search for sleep deprivation to see if people have advice. Apparently I do this a lot because there are 3 other posts from me in the last month that I hardly remember posting. Send help.

P.S. I’m breaking my own rule and adding the “funny” flair, because it’s funny to me. But then again everything is to me right now, otherwise I think I’d have a break down.

I know that a sleep deprived EEG can amplify abnormal waves and patterns, but what about overall? Can you tell how tired someone is by their EEG? I haven’t been able to find any information online.

I'm sitting in the driveway. She was in the hospital a few days and my dog got so incredibly upset that he chewed a bunch of fur off his tail. That or he has a coincidental skin condition develop while she was gone. She was supposed to take him to the vet today now that she's home. She refused. The cone I got the dog is too short and he can still reach his tail to chew at it so I've been up since 5 am Thursday (currently almost 5 pm friday) watching the dog so he doesn't chew his tail. I don't want him breaking the skin and getting some infection because I didn't supervise him enough. Thing is my fiancee has to go to sleep for work at 8, and since mom won't take him to the vet today I have to watch him overnight again. This gives me all of 4 hours to sleep. Got into an argument because I asked her why she can't take the dog to the vet today, and she swung the complete opposite direction and said she'd take him today but she will crash the car because she's sleep deprived. She could've told me why she couldn't go in the first place. I have her keys so she can't drive and essentially go kill herself. But this also means I'm not allowed in the house.

I don't know what to do. Can't afford a hotel, probably can't get one this short notice. I need to watch my her dog too, yes this is technically her dog that she appears to not care about. I know she won't supervise him at all. I can't sleep in the driveway all night, probably would get the cops called on me. I swear to fuck she cares about nobody but herself when it comes down to it.

Well as i was typing this my best friend finally bothers to turn on his phone and maybe he can get me somewhere to sleep... The dog though. I can't leave him unsupervised all night hell hurt himself.

edit: my fiancee convinced me to come inside, and everyone says she won't hurt me but... with the way she was acting i'm convinced she will.... i just have to hide in my basement (don't worry that's where my bedroom is) i guess until she is less threatening seeming. for context i admit i do have schizoaffective and the long hours awake may be adversely affecting my stability. I'll admit i'm probably having paranoia issues and some anxiety

Leaving the post up for a different reason, how the fuck do i deal with her when she gets like this?? in a way that feels/is safe? I'm having my fiancee take as many assignments as he can handle at his job so we can get enough money to move as fast as possible. i just need to figure out ho

So I may have seen this before (not sure), everything is a blur, but tell me you are sleep deprived, without telling me you are sleep deprived. LOL I'll go:

Me: I shook the formula in the bottle, and I forgot to screw on the cap.

My husband: closes the lid on the bottle and shakes it. It's just water, he forgot the formula. u/burnvictim42

Fucking sucks, anyone have any advice? Not looking for anyone to tell me “weed can’t cause physical symptoms”. If you’re not willing to look up the research, that’s on you. I am so tired but everytime I get comfy and super sleepy I just burn up. Change my clothes at-least once a night etc.