Nothing can be done to alter the length of the episode. And, nothing can be done to stop it. There are only about fifty known people on the planet with this disorder. It took Kristie four years to find another person with Kleine-Levin Syndrome. L evin S yndrome is a sleep that robs a teen's life.
Victims can never count on being able to make an appointment and then keeping it.
Kleine-Levin Syndrome runs a victim's schedule. However, Kristie excels inspite of being one hundred-percent disabled. Kristie's academic life like that of others with the syndrome would have come to an end at fifteen years old, but she would not accept defeat. It was simply not in her vocabulary. She entered college and through enormous inner strength managed the required course outline, and graduated from Florida State University, with honors with a Degree in Communications.