A person with narcolepsy type 1 explains how the sleep disorder impacts her life, reports Prevention.

You know that feeling when you’re the most exhausted you think you’ve ever been in your life—your eyes are so heavy that it would take physically holding them open with your fingers to keep yourself awake? Your mind is elsewhere and foggy and your body is begging you for sleep…

That’s how I feel every single day, several times a day.