GF Trouble sleeping

LegacyUser

Been worried about girlfriend recently, she's been finding it very hard to get a good nights sleep. For example constantly waking up because of weird nightmares, often when she wakes up she has shallow breathing and sometimes she's close to tears. Her nightmares seem to me to be always linked in some way - she often seems to feel that her emotions or herself are at risk. Her family are moving away later this year, so we think this may be a factor.
Can anyone suggest anything? She says she's always suffered with sleeping but I think that she should now maybe get it checked at a sleep clinic or something.

Floppybits

Anxious... wrote:

Been worried about girlfriend recently, she's been finding it very hard to get a good nights sleep. For example constantly waking up because of weird nightmares, often when she wakes up she has shallow breathing and sometimes she's close to tears. Her nightmares seem to me to be always linked in some way - she often seems to feel that her emotions or herself are at risk. Her family are moving away later this year, so we think this may be a factor.
Can anyone suggest anything? She says she's always suffered with sleeping but I think that she should now maybe get it checked at a sleep clinic or something.

I have often suffered from lack of sleep at various times and most times this is caused by something worrying me or stress. I found that when this happens that if I do some breathing exercises while lying in bed, I find that my body relaxes and I have a good nights sleep. I reckon your gf sleep problems are due to the worry and stress of her family moving away. Another suggestion I would make is that your GF arranges something with her family about visiting them and this may ease the worry and stress and will help her sleep.

LegacyUser

I think she's tried breathing exercises before and they helped afaik. Cheers, I was wondering what natural methods would help her sleep or relax more. What worried me is that she says that as long as she's had her own room she's had trouble sleeping, so it's not really a recent development, although it seems to have gotten worse with the news of her family moving and her staying here.

Is a sleep clinic too extreme, or would it be wise to get the problem checked out just in case there's anything else?
Thx

ando

regular exercise will give her a good nights sleep and the breathing exercises will calm the body down if under stress. i can expand and inform you what i find by far the best breathing exercises for calming the body down if you like

LegacyUser

ando wrote:

i can expand and inform you what i find by far the best breathing exercises for calming the body down if you like

Yeah that'd be cool, thanks!