Narcolepsy

Would you like to have a sudden sleep attack for about fifteen through twenty-five seconds every time you fall asleep, several times a day? No right. Well, actually that’s a disease in which many people suffer from it for their entire lives. Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. It is thought to be that narcolepsy is due to the deficiency in production of chemical and is either caused by genetic or biological. Its symptoms are excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in which a person experiences extreme fatigue and possibly falls
asleep at inappropriate times, such as while at work or at school, cataplexy in which sudden loss of muscle tone leads to feeling of weakness and a loss of voluntary and also visual hallucinations. As well as sleep paralysis which is a temporary ability to move or speak while falling asleep or waking up. In the video we saw on class about narcolepsy, Mohammad couldn’t be normal like the
rest. He fell on the streets and a science museum being very flexible at the time he had the sudden sleep attack. It seems like Mohammad was really suffering, he was overwhelming the entire day as the compulsion to sleep increased. From the moment he awakes he fight not to sleep during the day but it’s almost impossible to him. I noticed how people who suffer from narcolepsy required the
company of someone who will be by their side since they can suddenly fall.