Understand symptoms and explanations of sleep disorder

Question 1

What is insomnia?

Answer 1

Problems with sleeping at night that cause difficulties during the day.

Question 2

What is narcolepsy?

Answer 2

Inability to control sleeping and walking, so experiencing involuntary daytime sleeping.

Question 3

What are the symptoms for insomnia?

Answer 3

• difficult with falling asleep
• Waking up a lot during the night
• Frequently lying awake during the night
• Not feeling refreshed on waking
• Finding it hard to fall asleep again in the day when tired
• Feeling irritable and unstable to concentrate

Question 4

What are the symptoms for narcolepsy?

Answer 4

• Excessive daytime sleepiness ( EDS) - someone with. narcolepsy feels extreme sleepiness and can fall into an uncontrollable daytime sleep at any time
• Hallucinations and vivid dreams- Experiencing something that is not there, such as a feeling of danger. Can also bring vivid dreaming and separating dreams from reality can become difficult
• around 70 per cent of people with narcolepsy experience cataplexy

Question 5

Cataplexy

Answer 5

A loss of muscle power and tone, triggered by an onset of strong emotions such as laugher