It's ok you took your time to respond, don't worry about it
Is there such a thing as caring about others too much?
Yes, this is a problem a lot of people have. Caring for other people is good, but caring too much is not. You will eventually break down completely (seems like you are actually starting to get to that point) and then not be in the position any long to help the people you want to help.
But you know what's really crazy? Even though I'm exhausted and heading towards my physical breaking point, I want to keep on going, and actually push harder, maybe get to and past my breaking point and push more. How stupid is that?
I don't know where you exactly passed out this time, but I would highly suggest you stop what you're doing right now and get proper sleep. It's not only your physical health that is deteriorating from this. Your decision making skills, your response time, everything is going to 'go bad', if it hasn't already.
And sleep-deprivation not only can do that, but also cause emotional instability (easier irritated, sad, etc.), cause auditory and/or visual hallucinations, and damage you brain.
That, and more problems.
As said: You can die from too little (and too much) sleep from the effects little/no sleep can create. It's not so much staying up that kills, but the lack of any proper sleep.
I have had a friend from the other side of the world stay up constantly for me, because our timezones made it hard for us to talk with each other. I had to sit him down a couple of times and tell him:
1) He should get proper sleep.
2) There are times -even though our timezones differ- that we can still talk with each other. We just need to plan it all better perhaps when we can 'meet up'.
3) Because he was starting to suffer more and more from it, I simply refused to talk with him until he got proper sleep. When he wanted to help me sometimes, his help actually had gotten so worse, I couldn't even follow what his help actually was.
Case in point: You want to help other, but first help yourself. Whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you agree with it or not, you should get more and proper sleep.