British Teen With ‘Sleeping Beauty Syndrome’ Slumbers for Eight Months

 

Teens with the Sleeping Beauty Syndrome may awake and express aggressive behavior untypical to their personality and have no knowledge of the episode upon waking.

 

Unbelievably a British Tenn, 15-year-old Stacey Comerford, fell asleep in April and awoke in May.

 

The Sun reports on the case of Stacey Comerford, a teenage girl who’s afflicted with what’s known as ‘Kleine-Levin Syndrome’, or Sleeping Beauty Syndrome. People with the condition have “episodes” where they sleep for as long as 20 hours a day for periods of time, according to the National Institutes of Health.

 

Comerford’s case is a touch extreme, as she sometimes sleeps months at a time’ “When she’s in an episode, she might get up to go to the toilet or get a drink but she’s not awake. I call it sleep mode,” Comerford’s mother, Bernie, told The Sun, adding that she feeds her when she’s in this trance-like state. “When she wakes, she thinks it’s the following day. She doesn’t have any memory of it.”

 

Stanford University’s Center for Narcolepsy reported that Kleine-Levin Syndrome is actually a kind of rare sleep disorder that usually affects teens and rarely carries on to adulthood.

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