Rachel Nesmith Perspective on Sleepy’s Golden Hour
As a Junior at Texas Woman's University, I worled as an Animal Lab Technician on campus. This is when I began experiencing Excessive Daytime Sleepiness.
Immediately following 9/11/2001 I began experiencing Sleep Paralysis with Hypnogagic Hallucinations every night almost all night. By Christmas 🎄 I was completely collapsing from Cataplexy. Cataplexy is instantaneous completely conscious partial to complete muscular paralysis. One Laugh and Splat! The following February I was diagnosed with Narcolepsy with Cataplexy.
Hello! I’m Rachel Nesmith AKA Sleepy American Superhero, a married Texas Mom and singer-songwriter, native to Dallas. I grew up in Duncanville, TX a perfect quaint Southern Dallas suburb, aka “The City of Champions”.
Calling all Sleepy Peeps with a Sleep Podcast! I am “Putting Stigma to Bed” “One Melody at a Time”!
The Only way to significantly reduce sleep stigma is providing Pop Culture to the masses with accurate depictions and representations of Sleep Heath and Sleeping Disorders. Deuce Bigalow is a great example … people were convinced Sleep Attacks come on like 🫰 and we are fast asleep in fairytale Napland. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sleepiness and Rem Sleep symptoms are potentially disabling, and difficult to deal with on a daily basis.
In order to increase awareness
We must increase accurate knowledge about Sleep Disorders as well as bust apart innacurate portrayals of hypersomnia in print, music, film , etc.
How rewarding is it to inspire fans and colleagues to seek a sleep study! To decrease time from onset to diagnosis and treatment is my paramount focus.
This is the heart of everything I dedicate my life to! Accurate and entertaining lyrics paint a positive picture of how awesome Persons with Narcolepsy, cataplexy, Sleep apnea, idiopathic hypersomnia, Klein-Levin Syndrome, etc truely are! How gracefully we overcome obstacles, perseverance, live our life to the fullest possible potential. We crave self-acualization, fulfillment in a more understanding world, where we are validated and valued for our unique perspectives and experiences.
Dear Sleep Physicians, Pharmaceutical Companies, techies, Psychologists, Pulmonologists, Psychiatrists, Neurologists, non profits, and fellow advocates - I would be honored and love to be a guest on your Podcast! Could you please send me an invite for a time most convenient for you? You may email me at sleepyAmerican@gmail.com
To learn more about me and my Super Heroic fight to “Put Stigma to Bed” at https://linktree.com/rachelnesmith . Please support my music if you also want to transform public perception of sleep and sleep disorders.
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