How I Describe a Cataplexy Attack
I usually describe a Cataplexy attack as feeling like a puppet being held up by nothing but string. Your limbs become like jello or like brittle, dying leaves. It is much deeper than that though. There is this vulnerability that you feel as well. I feel it sometimes anyway. There is this feeling of being exposed, as If you have been stripped of something. I am not sure I would say it is your power topic have been stripped of, even If that is essentially the case. It is an ugly feeling that you can never adequately put into words. Noone who hasn't gone through it will never truly understand it. I will be honest, I have broken down in tears over a Cat attack, usually If was a bad one and while working. There are quite a few Narcolepsy sufferers who feel they have to hide their Narcolepsy like some kind of leprosy. That shouldn't be. We can't let this disease strip us of anymore than it already has. Someone told me they couldn't believe I have Narcolepsy and have had becau...