Sleep Paralysis and psychopathology
South African Journal of Psychiatry December 7, 2017 Celestine Okorome Mume, Innocent C Ikem
The occurrence of sleep paralysis in the absence of narcolepsy is not uncommon in the population. A good number of normal individuals sometimes report the experience of episodes of profound muscular paralysis on waking from sleep in the morning or during the night. These episodes are very disturbing, especially since the individual is generally unable to breathe deeply or voluntarily. Previous...