Obviously I am not recommending that anyone try it without medical supervision, but people should at least know that it's an option.

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-sleep-depriva...

I woke up thinking it was Monday but it was Tuesday. That took some explaining at work.

Felt amazing after about 30 hours of being awake and after the sleep's "jet lag" wore off.

I never experienced euphoria then, but in my younger years when I could still successfully pull all-nighters I found myself re-energized once the sun rose in the morning and this lasted typically until later that afternoon. This lead to a general rule where if I was planning on staying up that late I always tried to go to bed before the sun came up.

I'm in the middle of stuff and can't google a more concise source but I recall it being about 4-5 days

But your blog post specifically refers to chronic sleep loss.

My pet theory is that there are several conditions that look like "depression", one of them is produced by the body to prevent self-harm resulting from acute anxiety. This theory has two important consequences:

1) Trying to ease certain kinds of depression via medication or other direct-action tools is likely to cause unintended side-effects (self-harm, anxiety, mania) that the depression was there to prevent.

2) The body will fight back against any direct intervention, trying to reinstate control over unbalanced psyche, e.g. building up tolerance to medication. A more fruitful approach would be to locate and eviscerate the underlying anxiety-inducing problem; the depression should then lift on its own accord.

Like I said, it's just a pet theory, but it leads itself to validation.