She sleeps 6 months and then wakes up: Sleeping Beauty syndrome is a disease

Beth Goodier, a 17-year-old from Stockport, Cheshire, fell asleep on the sofa one afternoon and went on sleeping for six months, 22 hours a day: just sleeping, waking up in a dream trance to get some food, drink and go to the bathroom According to her mother, Beth has been asleep 75% of the time for the past 5 years, and her daughter suffers from Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS), known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.

The young English girl is one of the cases of a disease that mainly affects teenagers, usually male, preventing them from continuing the natural course of their lives and forcing them to sleep. Beth rarely gets up, leaves the house even less and when she does she has to move in a wheelchair because she is too tired to walk, often directed only by the doctor.

His mother initially thought the worst: a brain tumor or "bleeding. But all the tests were negative. Her condition baffled medical staff until a doctor remembered a colleague who had been dealing with a case." similar.
Since her diagnosis, Beth has slept more than she has been awake, for many of her birthdays, Christmases and summer vacations. When she wakes up, she has no memory of her illness or time spent asleep.
Beth had to drop out of college and her mother from her job to look after her daughter 100%. During one of her moments of lucidity, the girl met Dan, 25, the partner who helps her during the awakenings, moments in which Beth not only feels very confused, but also bewildered. These moments of wakefulness are then of a feeble duration: about two weeks. And she is truly a charm:

There are other stories of "asleep" boys, in England alone there are about a hundred, but relatives don't like the name "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome", because there is nothing romantic or sweet about all this. Every awakening is accompanied by states of anxiety, then depression for a lifetime lost in sleep, now irrecoverable. And there are few projects for the future, entirely linked to the uncertainty of this condition: the maximum expectation is in the hope of awakening. There is no university, work or couple future. There is no kiss from prince charming that can relieve these guys from this terrible fate. We just have to cross our fingers and smile as Beth manages to do when she is awake: