For a significant part of my life I've have problems with my sleeping patterns. Over the past couple years I've had problems falling asleep in inappropriate situations. The most frequent being in classroom situations. I've passed out on buses, doctor's offices, car trips lasting longer than 5 minutes, lectures, television watching in the middle of the day. Weird thing is that it tends to happen despite the fact I may have gotten a good night sleep. One of the worst results of it was in my last year of high school. I slept through nearly every one of my Goverment/ Economics classes. I failed it despite my efforts and had to attend summer school and back then I went to bed at 9 every night. What makes this even worse is that I also suffer from ADD. So these sleeping spells are not that difficult to start up. If you were to stick me in a room alone for twenty minutes without any reading material I'd probably be asleep within 5. Another thing is that I have problems waking up in the morning. If someone was to wake me without sufficient sleep I become incredibly violent or childish in my behavior. I'll curse and become nearly enraged from it. This is not my usual behavior. I'm usually kind and patience but I turn into a monster upon waking. I never really thought much of it until this semester of college where everything matters and I'm always either half asleep, on automatic pilot, or asleep. I'm always exhausted. I'm at my wits end with this and I'm starting to get worried. I don't want to lose my funding because of bad grades from this. I'm a good student and it feels horrible to feel like an idiot because I'm not conscious enough to study like I need to. If left alone with out an alarm clock I might sleep forever and I hate that. I'm scared and I wonder if I should see a doctor about this..


Could I have narcolepsy or something else?