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Narcolepsy Vs Insomnia - Sleeping Disorders

By ebazaar ⋅ July 28, 2008 ⋅

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What is Narcolepsy and How Different it is from Insomnia

Narcolepsy is a type of sleeping disorder that is caused by psychological imbalance and can only be cured through medication from psychiatrist. It is different from insomnia that more on a constant basis.

Insomnia is also a type of a sleeping disorder in cases where a person experience poor sleep or has trouble sleeping which does not only involved difficulty in sleeping, but also difficulty to stay asleep. For example, an affected person will tend to wake up every few hours of sleep at night that surely will cause them not being able to get quality rest of the day, and this can happen even without any difficulty to fall asleep.

A person who suffers from narcolepsy can and might suffer from abrupt attacks at unpredicted times and most commonly, it will happen where there is a intense emotional situation such as anger, fear or even uttermost disappointment.

The scary part is that a sudden attack of narcolepsy can have its’ sufferer to be paralyze for a few minutes while still conscious and asleep in the next second.

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