Reddit mentions of The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

Great book on the subject called The Family that Couldn't Sleep.

http://www.amazon.com/Family-That-Couldnt-Sleep-Medical/dp/081297252X

if anyone's interested, there is a very good book I can recommend on the whole subject of prior related diseases (such as fatal familial insomnia, Kuru, or Mad Cow) called The Family That Couldn't Sleep. It's a fantastic read, it gives you a lot of information about the illnesses, the history of prions and it also follows a family that has a FFI running through it. Just be careful, after I read it, I couldn't bring myself to eat any beef for a few months :D

[it's 17$ on US amazon for a new paperback](https://www.amazon.com/Family-That-Couldnt-Sleep-Medical/dp/081297252X)

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if you still want to read it. It starts off pretty strong and ends pretty strong. The middle has some dry parts but an interesting read overall.

I speculate that my insomnia relates to a fear of dying and/or loss of control. My conscious self keeps fighting to remain in control. I am talking in third-person form, as I do really want to sleep, but some kind of primordial instinct kicks in again as soon as I would be drifting off. I probably experience some kind of fight-or-flight response, and shoot right awake again with a boost of adrenaline. This keeps going on until I have exhausted myself and would even rather die than staying awake for one more minute longer.

I am still thankful for still being able to sleep. There is a fascinating, but gruesome condition called Fatal Familial Insomnia. An excellent book on it is called The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery. I probably went a bit on a tangent there as I can't help you, but it could be worse :)

You can read more about him in The Family That Couldn't Sleep

And the documentary The Genious and the Boys

There's a good book about it:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Family-That-Couldnt-Sleep/dp/081297252X

There is a family in (I want to say Ireland) but they had a gene that wouldn't allow them to sleep but they would feel the fatigue. Eventually they became Zombie like and died. I will try to find the source. I learned about it in psychology class.
Here is the link to the book about it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/081297252X

there's a great book specifically on this disease (and other prion diseases) called The Family that Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery. It's so well-written, not too medically/scientifically dense, and had me hooked.

My daughter bought me that book. Normally I don't read non-fiction but that book really blew me away.

http://www.amazon.com/Family-That-Couldnt-Sleep-Medical/dp/081297252X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453292314&sr=1-1&keywords=the+family+that+couldn%27t+sleep

For those interested this book is about that and other prion diseases.

Read this if you want nightmares about that

> then self-interest, cooperation, gender fluidity, homosexuality, socialism, and diversity should be what they fight for.

Not to mention eating your offspring. Cannibalism is rampant in nature, so 'nature of biology', right?

P.S. Please don't eat people. There's actually a very good reason we don't do that, because it very much used to be a thing until we started getting prion diseases from it.