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Re: stupid question

Posted by sleepy on May 18, 2001 at 05:26:55:

In Reply to: stupid question posted by hopelesslysleepy on May 17, 2001 at 21:08:24:

I would take an example such as driving in a car in the middle of an afternoon when the circumstances of the day have been primarily positive, on a day in which you had gotten at least 7 or 8 hours of sleep the night before: You are in the car by yourself, driving, -- do you fall asleep? do you roll the window down and turn the radio on and sing along and take drinks of a coke and still fall asleep? As I would say -- the difference would be that narcolepsy means that no matter how good or bad the circumstances of a day are, and no matter what situation you're in (driving down the road), you still fall asleep. I think that both depression and narcolepsy would be a cause of a person not wanting to get out of bed, and not wanting to leave the house, and really just being mopy all-around. But, after leaving the bed/house -- depression would just cause a desire to sleep whereas narcolepsy would actually put you to sleep - even in situations where any person would not want to sleep (ie. driving or in the middle of a one-on-one conversation with someone else). Narcolepsy is uncontrolled sleepiness even in sitautions where you don't want to be sleepy. Both Narcolepsy and depression would cause the desire to sleep rather than to be social, and the desire to just stay in bed all day.

That would be the best way that I could explain how I perceive the differences. I'm sure that you can/will overcome either/both of the problems!

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