I was on speed and seeing shadow people. Didn’t allow myself to fall asleep cause I thought they’d get me. I stayed up for three days. That’s the longest I’ve ever stayed awake.
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not sure, anywhere between 4 to 5 days, but i think 4 days. This was during my economics degree - I’d dose high on modafinil to keep myself working/studying.
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The longest I have stayed awake is two weeks. It was not a good experience at all. Near the last three days I was having some serious auditoru hallucinations unlike any I had ever dealt with before. I wasn’t on any drugs, I just could not sleep.
I have read several articles that stated prolonged lack of sleep can cause symptoms similar to those of psychosis on anyone, even those who do not suffer from a mental illness. Sleep is very important.
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2 days 15 character
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2 whole days, so 48 hrs
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Sorry you suffered this @Mr_Hope it must have been a brutal experience.
What happened in the end after 11 days, did you finally sleep naturally or needed to go back on zyprexa?
Im curious because im taking this med too.
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I’ve seen those people on speed
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When i was a kid,
there was
in same area an old gypsy
that -they said- hadn’t slept
for decades.
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I had to give up and go back on zyprexa. I wish someone had warned me that zyprexa could cause such insomnia. Now I have settled for taking zyprexa for some years. No apparent ways for me to get off zyprexa at this time.
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The longest I ever was awake was five days while manic and psychotic af. I have skizzle-affective bipolar-type. I crashed down from the mania the night I was taken to a hospital by police, finally went to sleep shortly after getting on the unit. But yeah because of the mania I not only was never tired during those five days, I was quite overwhelmed with energy the whole time. Yep, fun times as a medical student 
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I had no idea I was near to the world record. I do remember it being a horrible experience. The last day I was really hearing a horrible voice, like a gremlin, goblin, or gnome. Just some demonic high pitched voice. It was telling me that it was going to kill me, eat me, and my family. It felt incredibly real. Like a living nightmare. I remember the last day before I was finally able to sleep, I was so terrified I was crawling on the floor so as to avoid being seen through any window. Eventually, I was afraid to move at all. I laid there mortified and finally fell asleep. The whole experience was hellish. I’ve never had voices like that and haven’t since.
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