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you I mean, there are days I do give up, and those days make me super sad.

I call my mum crying, like, I don't want to do anything apart from sleep.

Narcolepsy has changed my whole life.

Excessive daytime sleepiness is what I think it defines as.

They say that people with narcolepsy feel like

if a normal person was not to sleep for 48 hours and then just be put in a working day.

That's how I feel every single day.

If four years ago you were to put me in this position now and tell me, by the way, in four years you'll have to sleep eight times a day.

You won't really be able to sit down and have lunch, dinner or breakfast without falling asleep.

I'd be like, There's no point in living.

I don't want to live.

The narcolepsy has changed my life.

I don't really go out and socialise that much in the evening.

I get very paranoid or I suppose it, I get very panicky if friends invite me out

because I want to go and I want to go

and experience that sort of stuff with them but I'm so scared that I'm going to fall asleep.

I can't get an office job.

I wanted to do interior design at university.

I couldn't even finish school.

I can't even sit and have a meal without struggling.

I've had boyfriends I'm out for dinner with and I would start doing something weird and he really was like, "What the hell are you doing?" made me feel so small.

I've had boyfriends in the past actually who have broken up with me because of it.

I would say Michael's one of a kind in the way that he deals with what I've got.

you I first met Annabelle when I was on a skiing holiday in 2014.

We went out for some pizza that evening with a big group.

And came home and then my brother Nick said: "Did you notice

that blonde girl just falling asleep all the time?" And we were like: "Oh, she must have been so wasted." Jesus, that's weird.

The day after I saw her in the upper ski bar again and I was like, how drunk were you last night?

Like you just kept falling asleep and then she was like, well, actually that's not just the alcohol.

And then when you said that you googled it and it was like such old bad videos and everything and then

I just said, just get to know me and trust me, it's not like that.

That one time we were in Paris and people were just staring kind of, you were some circus act That was one moment where I was really close to step in.

So when Belle is drifting into an episode I can kind of notice that straight away. Because

One moment we're talking about something and she's quite lively and then

the other moment he's just kind of gone and

She'd be talking about a complete new subject and doesn't really know what she's saying.

We used to watch films together and sometimes the series,

but it's not really fun because She's just asleep most of the time.

So no, I never watch a series with her anymore.

So if she doesn't have this sleep, she'll keep fighting and fighting and fighting, but she won't snap out of it.

So it's good for her to...

Yeah, it's...

be safe and have a sleep.

I think she's always quite sharp when she wakes up.

She's like, just wakes up and how long was I gone for is always the first question.

What's on you guys need to go?

What time do you guys need to go?

- Yeah, I think I'll need to.

Like your sign.

It's 5 plus 4.

What time you want to go?

Let's give it 20 past.

I'm just getting changed.

Nice little power nap.

- How long did I sleep for?

- 10.

- Oh, nice.

I needed just that little, and just 10 minutes.

and then just back.

- But no.

So I'm just packing my stuff now, actually going back to the UK.

I'm really excited, I'm going to see my mum.

I discovered I had narcolepsy when I was 17.

I said to my mum, like, I sleep really well at night and I'm still falling asleep in the day.

Can I go to the doctor's?

This one I look like, um...

Jeannie.

I remember we were like, "What is narcolepsy?" I remember you saying, "Is there a cure?" and the doctor was like,

"It will only actually just get worse." At school there were a few people in lessons that would tap each other,

they would film me, my friends have drawn on my face countless times.

Actually the teachers were the worst because the amount of times they've been like, "Bell, what were you doing last night?" "Bell, maybe don't go out so late." Actually a teacher threw a pen at me once and they were like,

"Don't fall asleep in my class.

Am I that boring?" So that's actually why I left school.

My biggest concern was leaving you alone.

Are you going to fall asleep in a sort of dangerous situation?

Yeah, because I've done a sleep that one time when you were in France and I had that.

really bad hallucination and I called you crying my eyes out The biggest scare is the hallucinations, thinking that there's somebody stood outside her bedroom,

there's somebody coming in her bedroom, there's somebody holding her down.

And when you're not there, it's very scary because is there somebody actually in the house?

Is there somebody going into her bedroom?

because she really does believe that there is somebody there.

Everyone worries about their children, it's quite a natural thing.

Less so now because Michael is an absolute huge support

When I'm in the gym and I'm doing running or high intensity stuff,

that's when I feel Okay, let's go.

Make sure you stretch when you go to the top.

Six, five, four.

After I've always done exercise class, I literally feel, it might sound a little bit cliche, but I just feel on top of the world.

And I think that's because I know the extreme other end.

I understand some people are like, yeah, you feel good after exercise.

But I'm like, you don't understand how great I feel.

After I've done a class, instead of driving straight home, I normally just come in here and take a quick nap.

These are really convenient.

I don't actually know what they're used for exercise wise, but I use them as a pillow.

I grab one of these blankets, I suppose, They knew I was coming when they built the gym.

It's maybe only like 10 or 15 minutes but everyone here

completely understands and knows and they're like just Belle's in the yoga room sleeping and it's completely normal.

I don't think I could have got to where I am today without my mum and Michael.

I think those two are the two that really stand out.

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I will do everything I can to overcome every aspect that hits me of narcolepsy because I've got it, but it doesn't have me.

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