According to the speaker, how long until some people started going psychotic under sleep deprivation?

Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Shocking Consequences of Sleep Deprivation

1 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) warns that prolonged sleep deprivation harms mental health and general well‑being. In this segment he asserts that after about two weeks without sleep some people experience psychosis and psychological breakdowns, characterizes sleep deprivation as a form of torture, and emphasizes that sleep is essential for life.

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Two weeks.

For two weeks. And in the two weeks, some of them were going psychotic, they were having psychological breakdowns, you know, and you remember sleep deprivation is a form of torture. So a certain way we, you know, at a national level, we're having this sleep deprived state that actually is bad for our mental health, that's bad for our general well being. And sleep is essential for life. You literally cannot live without this.