Hi everyone ~ I am pretty new here and haven't responded before,
jsut been reading. I have narc and sleep apnea; dianosed about a
year age after years and years of suffering and being constantley
told it was depression. Well duh - why do you think I 'm depressed?,
lol. Anyway i guess i don't have the typical narc where i fall
asleep standing up or driving and i don't have the hallucinating
dreams but i have a question about the paralisis. I cannot wake up
in the morning on my own at all! I don't hear ANYTHING! Not alarm
clocks, not the phone, the dogs barking, ect. The dogs do wake me up
pawing at me and or licking and litterally pulling on me or my kids
pulling, shaking and about 30 minutes or longer yelling. By then as
you can imagine they are frustrated, and angry, although over the
years as they jhave gotten older they are trying to be more
understanding to the fact that i cannot control it. But it makes me
feel like a burden and loser that i cannot even wake up. I could
give many examples of how i have slept thru things that anyone else
would of woke up imediately like when the landlord had came in to
work on the heat pump up in the attic and had been up there banging
and working for hours before i woke up or the time he was taking the
carpet up - I woke up to my whole living room outside and all the
carpet gone and half the living room done in hardwood flooring. That
is just a couple examples - there are many more.
It is like I go deaf when i am asleep. Does anyone else have this
problem? O r know if this is related to the paralisis thing.
I had got my second dog who is actually 1yr today and have been
checking into teaching her to be like a hearing dog to wake me up
when th alarm goes off. But i can't really get any help other then
groups like this since i am not deaf or hard of hearing. I can
relate to all the problems concerning work. I have lost jobs for
being late 1 too many times and am currently not working because of
it. I am seeing drs. and on meds but they seem to have no clue why i
can't wake up! Any others like this?