Nightterrors have her losing her marbles

inaccessibleisl

I think this is the right place, to post this, it is a worrying personal issue.
My girlfriend says she's having vivid nighmares, or nightterrors whatever they're called. They are quiet disturbing and she says she thinks about them when she wakes for most of the day.
I'm not afraid to sleep beside her or anything like that but ever sinse she's been getting them she's been acting a tad strange. Randomly saying irrelevant off-topic things mid-conversation and more worryingly physically doing oddish things without even realising she's doing them, like as if she's daydreaming or something.
I thought these dreams where the result of watching too many horror films so I stopped her watching them, but they keep getting wierder and more vivid. She described them as always starting with her wanting to or actually killing someone then going on the run and she's always caught after becoming overcome with guilt.
Wierd eh? She doesn't take drugs or anything so I'm baffled to why this is happening.
None of this really worried me until the other night when I saw
her throwing a cough coushin around the sitting room and hitting and kicking it like crazy, while fast a fukin sleep! Now I'm getting worried.

vibe666

you seriously need her to go and see a proffessional about this. if she can do something like that in her sleep then she could do anythign without even realising it. consiously she may love you to bits, but if her unconsious mind is capable of such thoughts and actions then she needs help, and right away before she does something really bad, like hurting herself, or you.

she needs councelling, and her GP will be able to refer her to someone who can help her. unfortunately there isn't anythign you can do for her directly, apart from being supportive and taking care of her while this gets sorted out.

good luck, and try and be as understanding as you can, it can't be easy for her knowing something like this is going on inside her head.

inaccessibleisl

Well to be more precise I should say ex-gf or soon to be anyways. I can't handle these wacky things. I have a sneeky suspicion she was involved in a break in at my home earlier in the week. She has 3 younger brothers who are a bit wild and I think they did it. I had painting taken and dumped halfway down the road and I she seemed to know about them even though I found them that night and didn't say anything about it to her. I don't get worried easy but now I am.

Lex_Diamonds

Thats what you get for consorting with Yanks.

vibe666

bunny boiler and a thief to boot. better off shot of her tbh.

Tusky

Night-terrors aint just vivid nightmares...but thats besides the point , I heard a really good way of stopping reaccuring nightmares is to write EVERYTHING down that happened in the dream to the smallest detail the moment you wake up, supposed to work really well

mycroft

My g/f has had two attacks in the last few months.

The first is she woke up screaming. She was having a bad dream, and then thought she woke up but there was this scary women at the end of the bed, then she actually woke up, screaming.

The second she was sleeping beside me, and started screaming, I held her and tried to wake here, at which point she just went beserk screaming and kicking (I had the bruises to prove it)

Does anyone know a good resource about this?

LegacyUser

:rolleyes:

Victor

(a) is she using any drugs (including prescription).
(b) go see doctor.
(c) is a change of scenery possible.

leeroybrown

She should see a specialist. There are quite a few cases where people have tried to harm others or themselves during these episodes. I'm specifically thinking of one case I saw on TV where a guy tried to climb out of an upper storey window and had to be restrained by his GF/Wife who was far from strong enough for the task.