Psychosis
Sleep deprivation has historically been used as a form of torture. Psychiatric symptoms from chronic sleep loss are a direct biological consequence, not a metaphor. It is physiologically possible to lose one's sanity purely through sleep d…
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Sleep deprivation has historically been used as a form of torture. Psychiatric symptoms from chronic sleep loss are a direct biological consequence, not a metaphor. It is physiologically possible to lose one's sanity purely through sleep denial. Chronic sleep deprivation can progress to psychiatric symptoms including delusion, paranoia, and full psychosis.