Our body needs sleep, just as it needs air and food to function at its best.

Without enough sleep,

your brain and body systems won’t function normally. It can also dramatically lower your quality of
life. Stimulants, such as caffeine, aren’t enough to override your body’s profound need for sleep. In
fact, these can make sleep deprivation worse by making it harder to fall asleep at night.This, in turn,
may lead to a cycle of nighttime insomnia followed by daytime caffeine consumption to combat the
tiredness caused by the lost hours of shut-eye.

This is because when we have excessive amount of sleepiness, we tend to behave passive and lazy.
We will be not having the sufficient amount of confidence and energy to carry out the work without
getting sloppy. Thus, we cannot contribute our 100% in our job which also will affect other people’s
work. Other than that when we yawn a lot, its actually disrupting our personal work and also could
disturb others by making them uncomfortable to work with you. These all will affect our quality of
life as a student or a worker due to lack of sleep. Furthermore, sleep deprivation also could cause
reluctance to get out of bed in the morning. This will eventually leads to procrastination and lack of
self-discipline, where you will slack off from being a responsible worker by skipping works and also
bunking school as a student

During sleep, pathways form between nerve cells (neurons) in your brain that help you remember
new information you’ve learned. Sleep deprivation leaves your brain exhausted, so it can’t perform
its duties as well. Studies show people who are sleep deprived report increases in negative moods
(anger, frustration, irritability, sadness) and decreases in positive moods. And sleeplessness is often a
symptom of mood disorders, such as depression and anxiety. It can also raise the risk of, and even
contribute to, developing some mood disorders. Think about how one bad night’s sleep, or not
enough sleep, makes you feel the next day. For many of us, we’re grumpy and irritable, we find it
difficult to concentrate, and we have no energy. We can overreact when things don’t go our way,
and we may find we’re less excited if something good happens. So it is easy to see how ongoing
sleeplessness can be a worry. Whether snapping at a co-worker, getting into a fight with your
partner, or losing your cool with your kids, not getting enough sleep increases the likelihood that our
emotional responses will be more impulsive and intense. None of these situations are fun or
contribute to healthier, happier relationships. But emotional reactivity goes beyond being cranky.
That same hair-trigger that makes us irritable with the people around us can be exhausting and
draining, leaving us feeling at the mercy of our emotions and critical of ourselves for not being more
adept at managing them.Even a single night of sleep deprivation sets us up to react more strongly
and impulsively to negative or unpleasant situations, according to research. And when operating
with chronic sleep debt, as so many busy adults do, you contend with this heightened emotional
reactivity on a daily basis. How sleep deprivation affects the complex emotional centers of the brain?
Research shows that sleep deprivation increases activity in the amygdala—the emotional rapid-
response center of the brain. This part of the brain controls many of our immediate emotional
reactions. When short on sleep, the amygdala goes into overdrive, causing us to be more intensely
reactive to situations.As we know, sleep deprivation negatively affects your mental abilities and
emotional state. You may feel more impatient or prone to mood swings. You will become more
irritable and short tempered over minor reasons due to the imbalanced mood swings. It can also
compromise decision-making processes and creativity. If sleep deprivation continues long enough,
you could start having hallucinations which is seeing or hearing things that aren’t really there. A lack
of sleep can also trigger mania in people who have bipolar mood disorder. The psychological risks
seen are impulsive behaviour, anxiety, depression, paranoia and even suicidal thoughts because they
cannot think straight because of disruption in emotional state due to lack of sleep.
Microsleep is out of your control and can be extremely dangerous if you’re driving. It can also make
you more prone to injury if you operate heavy machinery at work and have a microsleep episode.