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I have been referred to the sleep disorders centre at Guy’s Hospital in London re my night terrors. The appointment will be an hour long consultation and my partner is going to come with me as she really has a much better idea about what happens than I do.
I’m now not really sure what I want to get out of going there. I think it’s partly because I have never been diagnosed - I’m pretty sure it’s NTs, but I guess a sleep specialist may tell me it is something else. And they might be able to give me some tips to manage it that I haven’t already discovered.
I’m not sure whether I should disclose that I have PTSD and that I see a therapist? On the one hand, I think I should give them an honest, accurate picture. But my worry is that they may then just dismiss me and think I am wasting their time and that I should just keep seeing my therapist and stop bothering them.
My therapist believes the NT are a trauma response and that it is trauma/anxiety leaking out and unconscious trauma-related experiences being processed while I am asleep. So I also think she might wonder why I’m going to a sleep centre when we are already working on the root of why I’m having these sleep issues. But then, I am also aware that she is not a sleep specialist. Maybe the sleep specialists will think differently?
Writing this, I am not sure why I am so worried about what the sleep specialists/my therapist will think of me or how they will react to me going for an appointment! But I am unsure now why I am even going.
- Just to get a diagnosis? That feels important. But what for? What does it actually matter?
- Advice on managing it would be good but I’m not sure I’m expecting much on that front.
- Stopping them altogether? Is that even something I can realistically hope for?!
- Medication - I’m a bit worried that this will be their recommendation but I don’t really want medication. I don’t really know why not. Maybe because I worry that it will stop all dreams and I don’t really want that.
I now realise that I am posting a lot of questions that the sleep clinic will be able to answer so maybe I don’t need to know the answers to those questions now.
I think I am feeling very anxious...
I don’t know what to expect from the consultation. I asked if I had to do anything in prep or take anything with me and was told no but I am feeling very uncertain.
Don’t even know now why I’m posting either! Good grief!
Er....so some questions someone here might be able to help me with:
- does it even sound worth me going?
- if I go, should I tell them about PTSD/that I already have a therapist?
- I will probably try to pull together a bit of an idea of when they started and main themes, patters, behaviours and will ask my partner (and possibly my parents re when they started - but that feels like quite a frightening idea as I don’t know whether I want them to know I am going) Is there anything else that would be useful?
- has anyone else been to a sleep specialist re NTs and, if so, did you feel you got anywhere?
Sorry....didn’t realise how anxious I felt until I started writing!
I’m now not really sure what I want to get out of going there. I think it’s partly because I have never been diagnosed - I’m pretty sure it’s NTs, but I guess a sleep specialist may tell me it is something else. And they might be able to give me some tips to manage it that I haven’t already discovered.
I’m not sure whether I should disclose that I have PTSD and that I see a therapist? On the one hand, I think I should give them an honest, accurate picture. But my worry is that they may then just dismiss me and think I am wasting their time and that I should just keep seeing my therapist and stop bothering them.
My therapist believes the NT are a trauma response and that it is trauma/anxiety leaking out and unconscious trauma-related experiences being processed while I am asleep. So I also think she might wonder why I’m going to a sleep centre when we are already working on the root of why I’m having these sleep issues. But then, I am also aware that she is not a sleep specialist. Maybe the sleep specialists will think differently?
Writing this, I am not sure why I am so worried about what the sleep specialists/my therapist will think of me or how they will react to me going for an appointment! But I am unsure now why I am even going.
- Just to get a diagnosis? That feels important. But what for? What does it actually matter?
- Advice on managing it would be good but I’m not sure I’m expecting much on that front.
- Stopping them altogether? Is that even something I can realistically hope for?!
- Medication - I’m a bit worried that this will be their recommendation but I don’t really want medication. I don’t really know why not. Maybe because I worry that it will stop all dreams and I don’t really want that.
I now realise that I am posting a lot of questions that the sleep clinic will be able to answer so maybe I don’t need to know the answers to those questions now.
I think I am feeling very anxious...
I don’t know what to expect from the consultation. I asked if I had to do anything in prep or take anything with me and was told no but I am feeling very uncertain.
Don’t even know now why I’m posting either! Good grief!
Er....so some questions someone here might be able to help me with:
- does it even sound worth me going?
- if I go, should I tell them about PTSD/that I already have a therapist?
- I will probably try to pull together a bit of an idea of when they started and main themes, patters, behaviours and will ask my partner (and possibly my parents re when they started - but that feels like quite a frightening idea as I don’t know whether I want them to know I am going) Is there anything else that would be useful?
- has anyone else been to a sleep specialist re NTs and, if so, did you feel you got anywhere?
Sorry....didn’t realise how anxious I felt until I started writing!
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