I just finished reading about narcolepsy lifestyle adjustments on the Narcolepsy Network’s site, which I found helpful, but I’m really torn about what to do.

Ugh.

I have a colleague at work who I think suffers from narcolepsy and/or EDS.

She’s new to our area and I’m guessing that she’s in her mid-20s. She’s wicked smart, kind (which is a quality I really value), and from what I hear, loads of fun to hang out with occasionally after work. (But don’t mistake her for a party animal. She is not.)

Her office is next to mine, so we speak pretty frequently during the day. But the problem is that on numerous occasions, I’ve noticed her head rocking back and forth like the metronome on my piano back home set at a reeeeally low speed. And her eyes? Omg, they stare back at me like something you’d see on The Walking Dead.

Other times, I’ll see her in what seems to be a deep sleep, eyes closed, head resting in her arms on her desk.

She’ll zonk out for 20-30 minutes. The time of day doesn’t matter, either; it just happens. But whenever I’ve woken her up, or mentioned it to her, she just brushes it off like it’s no big deal.

Oh, and there was a highly sensitive “incident” last week when we stayed late working on a research project together. Just when I was walking around the corner to ask her a question, she let out a blood-curdling scream that nearly gave me a heart attack! At first I thought she was having a seizure, but a few moments later, she told me that just as she was falling asleep, she had a freaking panic attack, hence the screaming.

She’d felt paralyzed. Trapped.

But within 10 minutes, (other than feeling embarrassed) she was “fine” and we finished our project and left for the night. She never said another word about it. I didn’t say anything, either—until now.

So what should I do? What would you do? Please sound off!