How do you explain what it is like to have Narcolepsy? This is a regular topic of conversation within social media narcolepsy forums; and one that never really seems to be answered. The fact is that it is almost impossible for anyone who doesn’t have it to be able to understand the battle. I haveContinueContinue reading “The Phone Battery Theory”
Category Archives: fatigue
The Arrival of the Red Herring
During the ongoing fatigue investigation I was also seeing a psychiatrist as I had been diagnosed with depression in 1998 and the fatigue that I was experiencing was thought to be (by the specialists who my work had sent me to see) as a result of my depressed state. If you had lived with beingContinueContinue reading “The Arrival of the Red Herring”
Increasingly Forgetful
When you have spent the majority of your life waking up tired you don’t know any different, in fact I honestly thought that everyone must wake up feeling the same way, boy was I ever wrong! I didn’t even begin to suspect that something wasn’t right until around 2012 when I began to have troubleContinueContinue reading “Increasingly Forgetful”
Raising Awareness Interview
On the lead up to this years World Narcolepsy Day, I was invited to be interviewed to discuss narcolepsy by Jo from my local community radio station PBAFM. Jo has a weekly program called The Kitchen Table, and every week she and her co host Pete chat with a variety of people about subjects thatContinueContinue reading “Raising Awareness Interview”
