![]() ![]() It turned out to be cataplexy, which is muscle weakness when you experience emotions like humor, annoyance, anger, and surprise. It would even happen during sexual excitement: With orgasms, my head would start falling back like I had whiplash. I shot the driver a glance like “don’t you dare,” and my knees buckled pretty badly. ![]() Once when I had the walk signal at a crosswalk, a car almost started to turn. Then I started noticing it happening with annoyance. It started happening more frequently with laughing, like when I laughed at something funny at a party, I almost fumbled a glass of wine. When I was 21, I experienced another cardinal symptom of narcolepsy: I was laughing at a joke with my roommate in the living room, and my knees buckled slightly, as if someone had poked me behind them. I would slap myself in the face as hard as I could and pinch myself, run cold water on the back of my neck and forehead, do jumping jacks, anything to mentally move me out of the fogginess. I started going to the bathroom during every single class to wake myself up. I was trying to keep up with classes at Brown University and played varsity squash, so I thought it was just my busy schedule. When I was in college, I was tired a lot, but didn’t recognize it as a sleep disorder. I have a severe case of narcolepsy with cataplexy, which means I experience sleepiness combined with muscle weakness when I feel certain emotions. I thought it was average college sleepiness Narcolepsy drove the fictional wedge between those two beloved bright-yellow TV characters, but what effect does it have on real-life relationships? Julie Flygare, J.D., a 31-year-old woman with narcolepsy, talks about how her disorder has influenced her love life. “Homer and Marge legally separate, and Homer falls in love with his pharmacist, who’s voiced by Lena Dunham.” “It’s an incredible strain on the marriage,” producer Al Jean told Variety. Thanks to Homer’s narcolepsy, he and Marge are reportedly going their separate ways at the start of the 27th season of “The Simpsons,” which premieres September 27 on FOX. On June 7, news broke that one of TV’s most iconic unions is on the rocks. Is Having Off Days in Your Relationship Normal?ĩ Bachelor Party Stories Guys Swore They’d Never Tell The Celeb Hunk Who's Not Afraid to Admit He Gets Panic Attacks on Camera This Is the Best Sunscreen to Use for Outdoor Running ![]()
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