Psychosocial Impact of Narcolepsy

摘要: Despite remarkable progress in our understanding of narcolepsy, the disease continues to cause sufferer severe negative life effects. Before and after diagnosis, narcoleptics often experience unrelenting psychosocial stress. Child adolescent report embarrassment, academic decline feelings loss self-worth related symptoms their disease. Personality characteristics may be adapted order avoid social situations that would precipitate cataplexy or draw attention patient's degree somnolence. Misdiagnosis these illnesses result inappropriate treatment underestimation an individual's potential. Adult also face concerns workplace. Worry about job income are a source anxiety based reality. Accidents at home, while driving workplace increased, creating safety for both patient community. Marital difficulties common psychopathology is known occur more frequently. Narcolepsy's marked impact on quality has been found similar across cultural lines effects appear inherent part The socioeconomic general even than those comparable forms epilepsy. Successful diagnosis do not end narcoleptic's difficulties. need stimulants creates problems with pharmacists family. Somnolence, which responds most poorly all narcoleptic symptoms, leads continued Side stimulant use further difficulty. Finally, families unwilling accept illness thereby alienate patient.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)