I would be very short with people.

Sleep deprivation, which was part of my symptoms

because I was waking up so early in the morning,

made me irritable, first of all.

It made me, I would be awake and irritable at 4:30

in the morning, I'd still be irritable at 5:30 in the morning.

By 6:30 in the morning I'd have six or seven cups of coffee

because I drink a lot of coffee to try to stay awake,

and then that would add to the irritability,

and I would be very short with people.

I teach courses online, and that was difficult to do

because I was jittery by that time, and I of course

would blame it entirely on the coffee, but the truth was

I was having anxiety as well as not feeling rested.

By one or two in the afternoon, I didn't want to go anywhere.

I would take a nap, and sometimes

that nap would last two or three hours.

I slept through meetings, I would not physically

get out of the house and go to a meeting because I'd sleep

through the time I needed to leave to get out of the house,

to get to the university, to be at a meeting.

And you know, sleep is really important.

I think I was aging more rapidly,

so there were lots of signs associated with my sleeplessness

that impacted on the total person.