[Serious] What's the longest you've been awake? What happened?

I have bipolar disorder and years ago, before it was managed I would go through manic stages where I would run on little sleep. Sometimes I would just be too ancy to sleep or I'd be afraid that if I closed my eyes and slept, I would never wake back up. The longest I went was about 3.5 days straight.

Back then during manic stages, when I was tired, I got really paranoid that people could hear or see me wherever I was. I was paranoid people could here my thoughts so I would control my thinking to be pleasant and overly normal. I had floaters and thought they were shadows of a person trying to kill or rake me. During that particular time, I was taking a shower in the communal dorm showers in the middle of the night. While I was shaving, I thought I saw a shadow outside of my stall through the cheap dorm shower curtain. I got scared and gripped the razor really hard and ended up taking a huge chunk of skin out of my leg, up the entirety of my leg. I was so out of it I didn't feel notice it at first, I was watching the shower curtain, terrified. When I did notice I got sick. Blood makes me pass out sometimes too, so I just wrapped my leg in a towel so i didn't have to see the wound and stumbled back to my dorm . I climbed into my loft and passed out from the exhaustion and being light headed. I slept for 16 hours covered in my own blood. I still have a scar from it.

Tl:dr had some minor hallucinations, got scared during a midnight shower, accidentally maimed my leg while shaving.

Ps: I have been treated and have my bipolar under control. No one is able to guess that I have bipolar disorder and I live a normal, happy life. Adolescence was just a really rough time.

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