Is narcolepsy a disability Can narcolepsy cause paralysis in a person?

Not counted. Disability is defined as follows, and narcolepsy does not meet any of the criteria.

There are three main elements that constitute disability: There is a "final state" of an organ or tissue that cannot be completely "restored" under modern medical conditions due to illness or trauma. The existence of this final state is a pathological element of disability, also known as pathological damage.

This is an essential element of disability. There is a pathological damage resulting in low or loss of physical or mental and psychological function. This is the physiological dysfunction element of disability.

There are difficulties in fulfilling social roles appropriate to one's age, gender, and culture due to physiological dysfunction or pathological impairment, which is a social role disorder of disability. It is also known as social dysfunction and social environmental disorder. Persons with disabilities in the narrow sense mainly refer to persons with disabilities who have all three elements at the same time or who are mainly disabled in social roles.

Persons with disabilities in a broad sense actually refer to persons with physical functions. Disability in the broad sense also refers to physical and functional disability in general.

No, he is a mental disorder.

Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder of unknown cause, with irresistible short-term sleepiness during the day as the main manifestation, accompanied by sleep paralysis, sleep hallucinations, cataplexy, etc., collectively known as narcolepsy tetralogy. It is mainly manifested by irresistible text message sleepiness during the day, accompanied by sleep paralysis, sleep hallucinations, cataplexy when emotional, mostly in adolescents and children, and some patients are also accompanied by nighttime insomnia, memory loss, bulimia and so on.

Narcolepsy has a variety of hazards: 1. Sleep attacks at work during the day can lead to falls and accidental injuries. A fall or accidental injury can lead to paralysis if the spine is damaged.

2. Affect the patient's mental state, for example, if a student suffers from narcolepsy and suddenly falls asleep or snores loudly during class, the teacher or classmates may not understand and think that the patient is lazy. In addition, when the patient has a daytime sleep attack, the patient cannot control it, and there will be a feeling of helplessness. Therefore, many patients will have depression and anxiety for a long time, and 20% of patients with narcolepsy will have social phobia.

It does not cause paralysis, but the state of life and work is very poor.

Narcolepsy should be timely** and not delayed.

Dissociative brain pacemaker (TMES) is useful for narcolepsy, epilepsy, Parkinson's, Parkinson's disease, dystonia (torsional spasm, spasmodic torticollis, writing spasm, Major's disease), athetois (familial onset dystonic choreoathetosis, episodic kinescaric choreoathetosis), Wilson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, oligoactive extrapyramidal disease, hyperactive extrapyramidal disease, chorea (Huntington's disease, senile chorea), Ataxia (secondary ataxia, familial cerebellar ataxia), Tourette syndrome, cerebral palsy, cerebral atrophy, cerebellar atrophy, hypertension, severe insomnia, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, hemiplegia, senile dementia, vegetative people, etc