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Vic2023
Hello everyone,
I am the partner of someone with PTSD, and last night witnessed a really worrying episode. Has anyone else experienced this?
It was around 7pm in the evening, my partner fell asleep lying on me…I decided to wake him gently as I didn’t want his late night nap disturbing im his sleep a couple of hours later.
What happened next was perhaps 30 mins or complete confusion - I could tell by his eyes how confused he was. His eyes were looking around as if picturing something else, and kept repeating certain aspects of one of his traumas. Mixed with this (as he was still lying down) he would close his eyes and fall asleep and start snoring. In one of these, his lips and face went pale and I was terrified he had stopped breathing - I managed to wake him again, but it was hard work. I shook him and slapped his face with no response for about 30 seconds or so. Following this, he went into a ‘rage episode’ which I have seen before - I managed to calm him down and got him to lie back down. Eventually grounding him by putting on the Simpsons as he always laughs at this.
I have never seen him stuck in this sleep / awake before. He had no idea where he was and was hallucinating - and then fell asleep instantly. Has anyone else experienced this? And could he slip into unconsciousness??
Thank you.
I am the partner of someone with PTSD, and last night witnessed a really worrying episode. Has anyone else experienced this?
It was around 7pm in the evening, my partner fell asleep lying on me…I decided to wake him gently as I didn’t want his late night nap disturbing im his sleep a couple of hours later.
What happened next was perhaps 30 mins or complete confusion - I could tell by his eyes how confused he was. His eyes were looking around as if picturing something else, and kept repeating certain aspects of one of his traumas. Mixed with this (as he was still lying down) he would close his eyes and fall asleep and start snoring. In one of these, his lips and face went pale and I was terrified he had stopped breathing - I managed to wake him again, but it was hard work. I shook him and slapped his face with no response for about 30 seconds or so. Following this, he went into a ‘rage episode’ which I have seen before - I managed to calm him down and got him to lie back down. Eventually grounding him by putting on the Simpsons as he always laughs at this.
I have never seen him stuck in this sleep / awake before. He had no idea where he was and was hallucinating - and then fell asleep instantly. Has anyone else experienced this? And could he slip into unconsciousness??
Thank you.