I have not slept at all in two days and am not tired. What's wrong with me?

Are you excited about something? Really looking forward to an upcoming event maybe? That’s how I can go about not sleeping, otherwise I’d be dead by now, I love to sleep.

How many sodas, coffee and tea do you drink per day?

Not excited or worried or anything of that sort. I have coffee every once in a while, like once a month and never soda and tea!!!
this is soooo frustrating!

How old are you? Sometimes as people age their sleep patterns change. Have you been taking any medicines, even over-the-counter medicines can cause changes to your sleep. I’m curious to know what you were doing the first night when you didn’t sleep. Watching television, studying, chatting, texting?

im under 20, so i don’t think age is really the problem, and all i did was lay in bed, get bord, read, and lay some more.

This happened to me a lot when I was your age. Eventually your body will say “fuck it” and you will sleep for 14 hours. Totally normal.

And masturbation might help put you to sleep.

Any other problems? Are you sweaty? Hands shaking? Is your neck swollen just below your adams apple?

Can be graves disease or bipolar disorder. Doesn’t sound like you are manic, so I am thinking you need a thyroid test. Is you skin, hair and eyes dry? Heart pounding fast. Are you losing weight, or been very hungry? Is your hair falling out faster than usual?

I went through a few weeks of insomnia a few years back. All perfectly normal. Cut out sugar and go to a lecture or two if you are still in education. I’m sure you will manage to sleep there. For about 3 weeks in my second year at uni I could only sleep in lectures maybe getting 1 or 2 hours sleep a day if that. I could not stay awake as soon as the lecturer started talking but was wide awake at night. It may get pretty difficult if it carries on and I know I would get pretty panicky at times worried that I would start to fail my course but it will pass eventually and I passed my course too! By the end of it when I slept, I slept for about 23 hours. It was bliss when I woke up from that.

If you were lying in bed in the dark you probably slept more than you think.

You did probably sleep more than you think you did. Unless the lights were on an you were actively doing something, you can fall asleep and wake up and not notice. Time seems to go really slow when you are trying to sleep. If an hour passes, and it felt like an hour passed, it is totally possible for you to have only been awake for fifteen minutes and to have slept the other 45. But if you go too long without sleep, your brain will eventually force you to.

Does it feel like your brain is running extra fast? Have you been eating less? Have other (non-food) appetites increased (acquisition of things, sex, etc)? Have you been a little more irritable than you usually are?

Most likely anxiety, going by my own experience with this but I’m not a doctor so I don’t know.

You are still young, in your twenties, right? Of course you feel nothing. Try that when you are in your forties.

We are trying to work out if it is a thyroid thing or if, perhaps, you are in some sort of manic state. If it is a thyroid thing, all it takes is a simple blood test to find out and if they do find it is your thyroid, they’ll run a few more to narrow down exactly what is causing it. Very simple. I take medication for mine. It could be neither and you have probably slept for hours and hours since you wrote this.

If you are in dorms, go and see your RA. If you live near your parents, let them know how you are feeling. You may need to see a doctor if it keeps happening.

We need sleep. It is how our brain has time to do it’s information filing. If you don’t do your filing, the information piles up all disorganised and before you know it, you have a shambles of information everywhere and can’t remember where your own name tag is. This is why sleep is so important for learning and retaining information.