Narcolepsy the French "narcolepsie". The French term was first used in 1880 by Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau, who used the Greek νάρκη ("narkē"), meaning "numbness", and λῆψις ("lepsis") meaning "attack". There are two main characteristics of narcolepsy: excessive daytime sleepiness and abnormal REM sleep. The first, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), occurs even after adequate night time sleep. A person with narcolepsy is likely to become drowsy or fall asleep, often at inappropriate times and places, or just be very tired throughout the day. Narcoleptics are not able to experience the amount of restorative deep sleep that healthy people experience – they are not
Actualizing tendency of the actualizing tendency on his deductive observation that whenever a person is free to choose their goals they select "positive and constructive pathways". Rogers found that: "it is our experience in therapy which has brought us to the point of giving this proposition a central place", and eventually named this theoretical construct the actualizing tendency. The individual: "has one basic tendency and striving – to actualize, maintain and enhance the experiencing organism". In 1980 he elucidated further: "...life is an active process, not a passive one. Whether the stimulus arises from within or without, whether the environment is favourable