Hello I just entered this forum and I would like to ask question of sleep talking.
I am 23 years old male, I have been diagnosed stress dissorder before, and other dissorders. I also live with depersonalization dissorder.
I have had many problems due to sleep because of ptsd, nightmares and etc.
I talk every night in my sleep. I sometimes scream too. I have figured out that this has to do with my ptsd. I often see nightmares, of past events.
Currently I am not seeing a therapist, but I am going to do so in near future. I was in therapy for 2 years and I faced abuse from that person, so that is the reason I am not currently in therapy. I have self diagnosed Ptsd/cptsd, according to my symptoms and tests that I did, while I was seeing a therapist. I have also have tought the possibility of having some degree more serious dissocative dissorder like dissocative identety dissorder, but this is just a tought.
So the problem:
My sleep talking happens at the ends of REM phases of sleep.
At good nights I talk/scream just only once, when it's almost time for me to wake up.
But in the bad nights when I usually feel more stress in evening before going to bed, I usually wake up as a result of my sleep talking/screaming in every two hours, this can happen as much as 4 times in one night.
I usually wake up when someone of my neighbours screams towards me (tho they do this lot less now) or they bang the walls.
I feel exhausted, ashamed and embarrased for this. Not only that I may have woken them up, but for the fact I see these dreams where I am not adult but a child, doing child stuff, like 5 years old and I yell stuff that 5 years old would yell and it just feels so embarrasing.
I feel somewhat violated every time it happens. I'm 23 not 5 years old and the shame is just unbearable. I see also dreams and talk during sleep where I am as old as I am now, or little younger. Then there are those dreams that I just feel they are so strange. I feel they don't belong to me, this is one reason for my tought of maybe having did dissorder, as well as those dreams where I feel and act as a child.
So if anyone has some good tips of how to not talk/yell due to sleep,/ways of reducing this, Id be pleased to hear them.
Is there any way of prevent sleep talking? Non-medically, or is there some non medical sleep aid that would help?
I am 23 years old male, I have been diagnosed stress dissorder before, and other dissorders. I also live with depersonalization dissorder.
I have had many problems due to sleep because of ptsd, nightmares and etc.
I talk every night in my sleep. I sometimes scream too. I have figured out that this has to do with my ptsd. I often see nightmares, of past events.
Currently I am not seeing a therapist, but I am going to do so in near future. I was in therapy for 2 years and I faced abuse from that person, so that is the reason I am not currently in therapy. I have self diagnosed Ptsd/cptsd, according to my symptoms and tests that I did, while I was seeing a therapist. I have also have tought the possibility of having some degree more serious dissocative dissorder like dissocative identety dissorder, but this is just a tought.
So the problem:
My sleep talking happens at the ends of REM phases of sleep.
At good nights I talk/scream just only once, when it's almost time for me to wake up.
But in the bad nights when I usually feel more stress in evening before going to bed, I usually wake up as a result of my sleep talking/screaming in every two hours, this can happen as much as 4 times in one night.
I usually wake up when someone of my neighbours screams towards me (tho they do this lot less now) or they bang the walls.
I feel exhausted, ashamed and embarrased for this. Not only that I may have woken them up, but for the fact I see these dreams where I am not adult but a child, doing child stuff, like 5 years old and I yell stuff that 5 years old would yell and it just feels so embarrasing.
I feel somewhat violated every time it happens. I'm 23 not 5 years old and the shame is just unbearable. I see also dreams and talk during sleep where I am as old as I am now, or little younger. Then there are those dreams that I just feel they are so strange. I feel they don't belong to me, this is one reason for my tought of maybe having did dissorder, as well as those dreams where I feel and act as a child.
So if anyone has some good tips of how to not talk/yell due to sleep,/ways of reducing this, Id be pleased to hear them.
Is there any way of prevent sleep talking? Non-medically, or is there some non medical sleep aid that would help?