Around the world, millions of people are suffering from a variety of sleeping problems. Below are some of the people who have extreme cases of sleep disorders.
Sleep disorder diary.
Image viaRhett Lamb, The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep
Rhett Lamb, the 3 year-old boy who couldn’t sleep. He is awake almost 24 hours a day which makes him irritable during the day. Rhett is suffering from an extremely rare condition called Chiari Malformation. This condition squeezes the brain into the spinal column which result to strangulating of the brain stem which controls our body’s sleep, speech, cranial nerves, circulatory system, and the breathing system.
Michael Corke, the Man Who Never Slept
Michael Corke, a music teacher from Chicago, has been sleeping fine all his life. One day in 1991, just a few days after his 40th birthday, he began having trouble sleeping. His sleeplessness grew worse in the following weeks and his health deteriorated. Eventually he had by total insomnia – he could not sleep at all. After six months of total sleep deprivation, he died in the hospital.
John Alan Jordan, Another Man Who Never Slept
John Alan Jordan’s sleep disorders began a few months into his new job as a laboratory assistant at a leading dairy company in England, when he abandoned normal safety procedures by not wearing protective globes while working with broponol kathon, ammonia, hydrochloric acid and industrial strength detergent. He continued to work like this for several weeks until it made him gravely ill for two years. When he recovered, John had trouble sleeping and around Easter or 2006, he can’t sleep at all.
Ngoc Thai, the Vietnamese Man Who Could not Sleep
This 67-year-old Vietnamese insomniac, has been around the internet and one of the famous “man who could not sleep”. Thai’s sleep disorder started in 1973 after getting a fever. He claims he hadn’t sleep for more than 35 years. Aside from lack of sleep,Thai said that he still fells healthy and can farm normally like others.
Ines Fernandez, the Spanish Woman Who Never Slept
Ines’ story began in the summer of 1943. While watching a religious procession passing by her cottage in southwest Spain, she suddenly yawned and felt a searing pain went through her head. Ever since that day, she never slept. Her slept disorder lasted for more than 30 years. It caused her her marriage and became increasingly nervous and frustrated. The doctor who examined her described her condition as chronic cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder) and total insomnia. They also discovered that the sleep section of the brain appeared to permanently impaired.
