My life is a cope
I'm not sure where I'm going with this but this seems like the best community to share it.
So I'm in the process of diagnosis and learning more about narcolepsy type 2 and ways to manage it. Almost every day I'm finding something that I decided to start doing that actually was me learning to manage my condition. Strict sleep schedules, excessive caffeine use but strict cut off times, routines/scripts when I'm most tired, ice cold showers, etc. It wasn't until recently that I put the pieces together and decided I needed to seek medical assistance. Until recently I just assumed I was just tired. Everyone feels like this. I'm a parent, of course I'd fall asleep wherever I can. I'm getting older, of course I value naps now. Even though I'm 95% certain I've got a sleep disorder, I'm still listening to the 5% of my brain. I feel like either I'm crazy or going to be seen as a drug seeking fraud by others because at this point in my life I'm viewed as "successful".
Has anyone else felt similar in that pre-diagnosis period?