A 32-year-old woman has described her torment coping with a baffling sleep disorder that turns her into a sex addict.
Belle Floor, from Almelo in Holland, masturbates when she is asleep and cannot remember anything the next day.
She even set up her own support website six years ago after doctors and psychologists failed to work out what was wrong.
Ms Floor's condition has already caused the break-up of one relationship and now the school administrator is too embarrassed to let boyfriends stay over, UK newspaper The Sun reports.
She said her ex-boyfriend confronted her about her condition 10 years ago.
"Out of the blue one evening he asked me why I played with myself at night," Ms Floor was quoted as saying.
"I denied it because I couldn't remember ever doing it."
The ex took it as a slur on his sexual prowess and eventually they split up.
Ms Floor has tried sex counselling, hypnotherapy and even an EEG brain scan to help cure the sexsomnia.
Muscle relaxant drugs helped for a while but she eventually stopped because she did not want to spend the rest of her life on medication.
Ms Floor now finds comfort through her website offering advice and support to others who suffer the same condition.
"There are no official figures on how many people suffer from sexsomnia but I've spoken to hundreds of men and women from all walks of life with the same condition," she said.
"I now have my self-confidence and self esteem back."
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