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Narcolepsy Overview


Narcolepsy affects an estimated 25 in every 100,000 people in the United States. This sleep disorder is primarily characterized by intermittent, uncontrollable episodes of falling asleep during the daytime. Three additional symptoms are typically associated with narcolepsy: cataplexy (short-lived intermittent muscle weakness), hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations (hallucinations while falling asleep or waking), and sleep paralysis (paralysis while falling asleep...Read the full article

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Your narcolepsy overview is fairly superficial and misleading in the way it characterizes narcolepsy as merely a disorder of "sleepiness" that can be relieved by taking a couple of little naps during the day. It fails to mention that narcolepsy is associated with extreme fatigue and sleep deprivation and causes serious physical and mental health disorders such as hypertension, heart disease, disability, and depression to name a few. See literature from Stanford University's Narcolepsy Center or the NY Times Feature of August 26, 2009 "The Voices of Narcolepsy".