#NarcolepsyStories: Nikita Tyler
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I had turned 13 and over the summer holidays, I began sleeping in until the afternoon and taking naps for the rest of the day. I put it down to feeling a bit depressed because my best friend at the time had moved away. My mum put it down to me being a lazy teenager. By the time I went back to school in September, the urge to sleep was becoming more frequent and more intense. I remember my eyes starting to sting in a religious studies lesson and I just wanted to shut them. At home, after school, I’d sit down and be asleep at exactly the same moment. I began to notice symptoms of cataplexy when walking to school. If my favourite song came on, for instance, my knees would go weak or my head tilt back. As long as these lapses were just momentary, I felt no need to mention them to my parents. I imagined these muscular weaknesses would go away, but they just got worse. Then, while out shopping, my dad made a joke, I laughed and experienced my first complete collapse in the middle of a har...
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