The Experiment Gone Wrong

So here's the thing, I'm a grad student in neuroscience and I had this idea. You know how we always talk about the need for more self-experimentation to validate our hypotheses? Well, I decided to push it further than anyone else has dared before. I was researching neural pathways related to stress response and thought that if I subjected myself to a high-stress situation for prolonged periods without proper sleep or food, I could observe changes in my brain activity through EEG and MRI scans. It would be groundbreaking! Plus, being a grad student, I already had all the necessary equipment at hand. I started off small, pulling two-nighters on lab reports, skipping meals to focus on experiments, but soon it escalated into days without rest or nourishment. My lab mates noticed something was up and tried talking me out of it. But I couldn't stop, I felt like my work needed this kind of dedication. Then came the day when I crashed completely, passed out at my desk during a critical experiment. The head of the department found me and called an ambulance. After being hospitalized for dehydration and malnutrition, they made me take some time off to recover fully before resuming any research. Now here's where it gets tricky, I genuinely believe what I was doing might have led to some interesting data, even if it wasn't ethical or safe for myself. But the incident has everyone questioning my methods and my commitment to good scientific practice. Is this just me being overly ambitious, or is there something fundamentally wrong with how I approached research? What do you think?