Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35711173-20181225051046/@comment-9041013-20181230225002

However, if you are interested in a similar disease for a future story, I suggest using Fatal Familial Insomnia. It's a genetic, very rare disease that is like the AD, MCD and Parkinson's is a prion based neurodegenerative disease. It is as the name suggests. A fatal insomnia gradually worsening with time, to the point of complete innability to sleep which destroys the body and mind of the person. In cases of the diease which can strike a person at any age seemingly, post-sexual maturing. Death usually occurs a few months to a year after the initial onset.