A real-life 'sleeping beauty': 会合，会う the 17-year-old girl with 条件 that made her sleep for 64 DAYS
- Nicole Delien, 17, 診断するd with rare sleep disorder will sleep 18 to 19 hours a day
- She once slept for 64 days, 行方不明の Thanksgiving and Christmas
- Nicole's 条件, Kleine-Levine or 'Sleeping Beauty Disorder', まず第一に／本来 影響する／感情s adolescents
- An 概算の 1,000 people around the world を煩う Kleine-Levine
A Pennsylvania 十代の少年少女 slept for 64 days from Thanksgiving into January -- her longest sleeping episode yet.
Nicole Delien, 17, struggles with a rare sleep disorder called Kleine-Levine, or ‘Sleeping Beauty' Syndrome, which 影響する／感情s an 概算の 1,000 people around the world.
During her sleep （一定の）期間s, which began when she was six and a half, Nicole will wake up in a 混乱させるd 明言する／公表する for small periods of time to eat, drink and use the bathroom and then 落ちる 支援する to sleep.
'I don't remember what happens (during that time),' she told the Today Show on Tuesday. 'It's hard for me to talk about it, because I've 行方不明になるd so many days of my life. I just don't like when people call it a fairy tale, because it's really not.'
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Rarely awake: Nicole Delien, 17, is afflicted with Kleine-Levin Syndrome, a rare disorder that 原因（となる）s her to sleep 18 to 19 hours a day
Family care: Nicole with her younger sister and brother, who do not have the same 条件 as her
Nicole’s mother, Vicki, says her daughter will sleep 18 to 19 hours a day, and when she 結局 wakes up to eat she is in a ‘sleepwalking 明言する／公表する wh ich she doesn’t remember,’ KDKA in Pittsburgh 報告（する）／憶測d last week.
The Delien family also recently appeared on Jeff Probst’s 企業連合（する）d talk show to make sure other families become aware of the rare disorder.
Vicki Delien told reporters that it was very 失望させるing trying to get a diagnosis for her daughter. She said it took several hospital trips to 人物／姿／数字 out what has been afflicting her.
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結局, Dr. Michael Rancurello, a psychiatrist at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was able to pinpoint the disorder and 申し込む／申し出 some suggestions on how to manage it, 含むing 医薬.
'It's really not sleeping,' he told the Today Show, calling Nicole's unconscious 明言する／公表する a 'delirium.'
'I think it's a manifestation of some brain 機能不全,' he said.
On television: Nicole with her mother, Vicki Delien, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Michael Rancurello, on the Today Show
Individuals 影響する／感情d with the disorder may go for a period of 'weeks, months or even years without experiencing any symptoms, and then they 再現する with little 警告’ the Kleine-Levin Syndrome 創立／基礎 website 明言する／公表するs.
In 新規加入 to e xcessive sleeping, those symptoms 含む disorientation, hallucination, child-like behaviour, binge-eating and periods of hyper-sexuality when awake, によれば an Oxford 定期刊行物s 報告（する）／憶測.
That 報告（する）／憶測 says the disorder predominately 影響する／感情s young males.
Raising 認識／意識性: Nicole with her parents on the Jeff Probst Show
Symptoms may be 関係のある to 機能不全s in the parts of the brain that 治める／統治する appetite, sleep and sexuality, によれば the 国家の 学校／設ける of Neurological Disorders and 一打／打撃.
The 原因（となる） of Kleine-Levin Syndrome is unknown, both 医療の sources 示す.
Eric Haller, a young college student with the disorder, told ABC News in February that he gets sick and 落ちるs into a sleeping episode about eight to 10 times a year.
He still shows an aptitude for working and learning. The 21-year-old from Pl acentia, California, 持続するs a 3.5 普通の／平均（する） at Fullerton 明言する／公表する University and 抑留するs for the Los Angeles Clippers. However, his abilities 拒絶する／低下する when he slips into a trance.
On the 瀬戸際 of sleep: ビデオ （映画の）フィート数 of Nicole before she fell asleep for 64 days
深い sleeper: ビデオ （映画の）フィート数 of Nicole after she passes out
Kleine-Levin Syndrome can last for eight to fourteen years of an afflicted person's life, Dr. Rancurello said, 公式文書，認めるing that Nicole is reaching the mean length of symptoms 権利 now. 医薬 helps spread her episodes その上の apart, her family says.
Still, Nicole says she has 行方不明になるd o
ut on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other family 祝賀s 予定 to those （一定の）期間s.
She also 行方不明になるd out on an 適切な時期 to 会合，会う pop singer Katy Perry. But when Perry later learned about Nicole’s disorder she made sure Nicole was able to visit her backstage at a 業績／成果 in Connecticut.
As she grows older, Nicole says she hopes to have 'more good memories like that one.'
Nicole’s last sleeping episode was in March.
She said that she’s 脅すd of when it will happen again.
VIDEO: "Sleeping Beauty" Syndrome Explained:
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