Night terrors (also known as night terrors) are disruptive sleep disorder that most young children are affected, but can also occur in time...
Night terrors (also known as night terrors) are disruptive sleep disorder that most young children are affected, but can also occur in times of stress in adults.
The condition can become chronic and is of waking up in the night, screaming with fear and terrible images hallucinations that bugs have marked
This article examines the causes of this sleep disorder and how, without stopping the need of prescription drugs terror at night.
What are night terrors?
This strange disorder dream has many names, sleep terror disorder, including, nocturnus fear and DSM-IV Axis I: 307.46 (which is the medical name is). It shares similarities with the hallucinatory dream (HSD) disorder, but many people are not diagnosed because they simply do not understand what is happening.
Do not be confused with the standard Moor nightmares or even sleep paralysis, night terrors include sudden awakening from a deep deep sleep about 15-60 minutes after falling asleep. Victims can jump out of bed to get the feeling extreme anxiety and a temporary inability fully conscious again.
This is often accompanied by terrible hallucinations may vary from one person to another. In the past, when I experienced night terrors, he was always a huge spider, the bed or suspended in the air in front of me was either increase.
This is the fight-or-flight - an evolutionary instinct that helps us to avoid emergencies, with a rush of adrenaline. Fear is intense, and often the victim scream and shout and be highly motivated to escape. In this drowsy state of the half, the logic states do not respond well ( "Calm down, it's only a dream"), and some people have no recollection of any attack.
Night terrors: Causes
Night terrors in children are the most common and are in this condition is not immune than adults yet. The research identified specific causes such as:
Physical or emotional stress
Drugs (including sedatives)
sleep deprivation
Stimulants before bedtime
Change jet lag or time zone
substance abuse
Sleeping in a new place
According to the Center for Resource Eight fear, the more it in the non-REM sleep before the terrorist attacks, more anxiety. Can with an episode in a patient cause only touch while in deep sleep, non-REM. In fact, a recent study found that in 81% of cases, physical contact and proximity of a sleeping partner or a pet in the bed of catalyst for patients who had already been invested.
stop night terrors
There are different schools of thought on the best way to end the night terrors in children and adults. Some recommend that you and the victim calm when they jump to scream and shout, which also prevents injuries. However, they can be extremely paranoid and think that you are trying to hurt them, so if this is your reaction, you can move it freely.
It is also important to reassure you going to stay. Do not yell at them because this will make them more anxious and confused. You will be very confused about the sudden rush of adrenaline and probably half asleep, so be patient and try to bring the insurance into reality.
Often my hallucinations do not last more than five seconds, however, seem so alive to see in my room a mark in my head to the left. It was hard to convince before they finally "wake up" and accept that there was never anything there.
In severe cases, doctors prescribe antidepressants such as Klonopin, Valium or Tofranil. However, there are natural remedies available by prescription withought as:
• St. John's wort (primarily for sleep problems of depression, anxiety and mild sedative because of its effect - please read here first the dosage and interactions).
• L-Theanine (primarily for anxiety, dementia prevention and treatment of hypertension and - again, make sure to read about L-theanine before you take).
If you or your child suffers night terrors, you can use the following methods of relaxation to try to prevent the accumulation of fear, which leads to the attack often.
• Relax before bedtime - Give him time to relax after a day of work before they run into the bed to send them a hot bath, listen to soothing music and do it with a book before bedtime.
• Cooling - Make sure that the room is too hot in summer, because it can not worsen an episode. Let's open a little and give them light pajama window. Avoid pajamas with feet.
• Play Music - Help to fall sleep soothing music that helps the transition between the different stages of sleep, when the parasomnia occurs. You can also create a good mental pictures to relax your mind while sleeping.
• Medicinal plants - Chamomile Take one capsule one hour before bedtime. In chronic patients, it may take a week, a reduction of night terrors to see, but this is a herbal remedy that. On prescription drugs dependence on less reliable drug
• Essential Oils - The flavors are very suggestive to treat a relaxing essential oil such as lavender to soothe and until morning aroma sticks provide.
Be prepared specifically for night terrors, which are repeated in unusual situations, such as sleep, while deprived clockwise or strong sleeping shift, or sleep in a new location (the bed was moved or if you are in a different situation at home products) ,
Another way to reduce stress that causes night terrors is to seek advice from negative fear releases, which may be the cause. Night terrors can phobias or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are correlated with the root scared is a good way to treat this condition, the bump in the night goes.
How he treats night terrors
I was 23 when I started suffering night terrors.
Night terrors were only bad dreams for me. They were shocking and frightening hallucinations that has arisen without dreams after waking from a deep sleep.
The first time it happened, Pete and I had flown for 22 hours in New Zealand, and suffers from a lack of sleep and subsequent latency that interrupted our sleep patterns. Although he seemed to suffer negative effects, opened me this strange dream disorder.
I am not a kind of person Screamy. But tonight I woke up in abject terror scream - see a giant tarantula six feet, standing on hind legs in space. He was in an aggressive attack position, come up to me heart beat with his paws. I remember the very clear picture now (and it was there 7 years). It was like a lightning bolt had shot through me. And he knew without a doubt that the animal had bad intentions. I had to escape.
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