News Significant Link Between Nightmares, Suicidal Behavior

[MyPTSD]

A new study is the first to report that the relationship between nightmares and suicidal behaviors is partially mediated by a multi-step pathway via defeat, entrapment and hopelessness. Results show that suicidal thoughts, plans or attempts were present in 62 percent of participants who experienced nightmares and only 20 percent of those without nightmares.
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[Justmehere]

The article draws the conclusion that nightmares lead to certain types of thinking and feeling, and thus this leads to suicidial thoughts. The problem is that they didn't seem to compare this with the full set of symptoms that can happen with PTSD.

Nightmares in general are symptom. Symptoms are red flags that someone is struggling.

If someone is suicidal, it makes sense other symptoms of PTSD would be higher as well.

I bet that they would have found higher suicidal thinking rates among people with other strong symptoms of PTSD, like panic attacks, flashbacks, dissociation, etc.