Hey,

I thought I should share this story with you guys as something to learn from. Yesterday I think I might've been awake for up to 36+ hours and having slept very poorly the nights before that, and no I did not do this on purpose, I just have very very awful insomnia. Now what happened to me was I had a seizure, with my extremities shaking and trembling uncontrollably for about 2 minutes, messed a lot of shit in my room, scared the shit out of my family, gladly I didn't hit my head or anything as I was playing while the seizure occurred.





When I finally got conscious again I was very very incoherent, with no memories whatsoever of the actual seizure, not where it began, not how long it lasted. An ambulance was called, they asked me to go and apparently I had said shit like "I got to go get the guns first" and I thought it was January and shit and couldn't remember my dogs' names or barely anything simple they asked me on the spot. I quickly cleared up after I got in the ambulance though and had to spend 6 hours in the hospital with my condition being monitored, no reoccurance this far.


I'm okay now, what the doctors told me and what I've read and believe is that [b]the cause of the seizure was sleep deprivation[/b] and is a very common cause for seizures among actual epilepsy patients, so I just got to learn that [b]anyone[/b] can get an actual seizure from multiple different factors, including sleep deprivation, stress etc.


Now this is probably not very likely to happen to you ever(hopefully), but respect yourself proper sleep at nights. Don't pull allnighters too often, it's quite unhealthy for you mentally and physically if done frequently. I'd also imagine many of you guys have sleeping issues too, but I can't help but recommend avoiding long periods being awake without sleep for not only the obvious reasons but what happened to me.


As electronics tend to also wire up your brain a lot, it's studied to make falling asleep harder and this certainly touches some of you, certainly my case. Due to my unlucky timezone(scrims end at 11:30 PM earliest) I now have decided I will most likely no longer play competitively for the sake of my own health and well-being, [b](despite me not going to likely be on team because I can't practice, I'll try to attend next insomnia!)[/b]. I will play and stream pugs though. As obvious as the general idea of this announcement is, which is to sleep, I wanted to give you a head-up if you suffer from insomnia and/or plan on doing like 24h+ gaming sprees.

Stay safe guys!