My personal experience is that long term sleep deprivation took me several months of recovery to even approach the mental capacity I had previously. Having kids

My personal experience is that long term sleep deprivation took me several months of recovery to even approach the mental capacity I had previously. Having kids really fucked up my sleep schedule, and I was not getting enough rem cycles for about 2 years. It wasn't until my first was sleeping through the night consistently that I began to recover.