Tell me a little more about night terrors please? told i have them in psych hospital,...

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...never read up on it? what exactly are they, what causes them, and does it affect your health in any way?

I was told i had them in my first psych hospitalization after an attempted suicide. I was reportedly screaming in my bed and kicking and punching the air while crying and telling "them" to please stop hitting me and to not hurt me.

Kind of scary. Its not the first time though, ever since i was younger my mom always tells me about me fighting in my sleep and crying / yelling for "them" to go away and leave me alone and stop hitting me.
Oh! i forgot to mention can psychosis have anything to do with these "Night Terrors?" I am diagnosed Bipolar 1 with Schizophrenia aka Schizo-affective disorder.
 
Night terrors are usually what we call nightmares in children...

Night Terrors

Night terrors are nocturnal episodes of extreme terror and panic that usually occur early in the sleep period.10 They are similar to other arousal disorders that occur during deep sleep, such as somnambulism (sleepwalking) and confusional arousals. Night terrors are associated with autonomic discharge, confusion and vocalizations, often a "blood-curdling" scream. Persons with night terrors are often difficult to arouse and have limited recall of their dream content.27 Night terrors can occur in association with the other arousal disorders that are associated with deep sleep (Table 3).25 Night terrors are most common in children between four and 12 years of age and affect 1 to 4 percent of the population.25,28 Polysomnographic studies in these patients generally show increased arousals from deep sleep.29

Adults who have night terrors are more likely than children to have psychopathology, mainly substance abuse and affective disorders.29 As with other parasomnias that affect adults, night terrors are more likely to occur in association with other sleep pathology, such as periodic limb movements and obstructive sleep apnea.30



You have to remember that you are not scizophrenic you are scitzo effective, and yes there is a BIG difference. It is very rare that a person is both bi polar and scizophrenic... usually they say "scizo effective" because the mania part gets out of control and can turn into psychosis.... and actually they really should have diagnosed you as.. Bi Polar w/ psychosis... there is a diagnosis like this in the book they use to diagnose people in... I've just recently found this out! Scizo effective is usually used w/ bi polar when a person has been medicated but the meds are not helping with the psychosis (usually)

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000401/2037.html
 
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