You May Not Know
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Many people who have a rare sleep disorder aren’t even aware of their condition. After all, the activity involved with the sleep disorder whether it is wandering around, eating, acting out aggressively often occur while the person is asleep, so unless they piece the clues together they may not even realize that they have a rare sleep disorder.
Of course, people who have disorders that keep them from falling asleep, or which wake them up incessantly throughout the night, are fully aware that they have a sleeping problem and often consult a doctor or instead turn to medications in an attempt to get a full night’s sleep. What happens when you don’t even know that you have a sleep disorder?
The problem with some rare sleep disorders is that they allow you to act out while sleeping. You might make a meal and eat it without even waking up during the entire episode. You might make strange noises in your sleep, or you might act aggressively against inanimate objects or against the people around you. In very rare and extreme cases, some people have wandered around in a dissociative state that allowed them to take on an entirely new identity for a period of time. In other words, rare sleep disorders can be serious. They are about much more than simply getting a rotten night’s sleep.
If you live with other people, such a spouse, family members, or roommates, they may approach you and complain of odd behaviors during sleeping hours. They may tell you that you have been stumbling around the house and not quite being yourself, and although you don’t remember these instances at all you can’t doubt the reliability of their statements.
Instead of dismissing their words as jokes or insults, you should find out as much information as you can from them. Ask if you ever act aggressively, or if you carry on full conversations. Armed with all this knowledge, you should consult a doctor or sleep specialist to find out what the problem is and what you can do to get help.
It may be a little more difficult to figure out that you have a rare sleep disorder if you live alone. Without another person available to actually witness whatever sleep behavior you demonstrate, you will have to guess based on how you feel after sleeping and additionally by paying attention to anything that may seem different the next morning. Do you feel tired and not very well rested?
Do things look differently than they did the night before, such as furniture moved or things out that weren’t out when you went to sleep? If you notice these instances, you may want to set up a video camera to see if you exhibit any interesting behaviors while you are sleeping. Of course, not all rare sleep disorders include affected people getting up and moving around at night, but this can be a fairly reliable indicator that there is something going on that needs to be mentioned to a doctor.
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