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”
Category Archives: Narcolepsy with Cataplexy
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”
The Shadow People
Hallucinations: The Shadow People I never mentioned my hallucinations due to being afraid that I would be labeled crazy and then put away. I see, hear, and smell things that aren’t really there when I’m pushing myself to keep going. I believe that my narcolepsy symptoms began to show when I was approximately 10 yearsContinueContinue reading “The Shadow People”