03 May 2005

sleep-aid

Is it possible to be narcoleptic and still be a fairly productive person?

I have a hard time getting to sleep at night, I wake up relatively easily in the morning, but I feel overwhelmingly sleepy all day long, yawn frequently, and fall asleep at my desk or bench or in meetings (what I remember Karin calling "micro-sleeps": second-long naps) with regularity. Anti-narcoleptic drugs are stimulants, and that would hardly help matters...so short of committing to regular nap-time in the library, what do I do? Do I simply suffer from the modern disease of overachievement?

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