# Sleep Deprivation --- **Sleep deprivation** is a decreased amount, consistency, or quality of [[sleep]]. For example when someone goes for 30 straight hours without sleeping, or gets sleep that is constantly interrupted, as with new parents. - Loss of concentration/brainfog - Slowed reflexes - Increased anxiety - Moody - Chronic deprivation may lead to *decreased* healing, depression, associated with other major illnesses including depression ___