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September 25, 2005Nightmares & Night Terrors in Bipolar Disorderfiled under Bipolar Disorder Symptoms & Diagnosis
Nightmares and night terrors are a commonly reported symptom of bipolar disorder. Those with bipolar disorder often have nightmares filled with death and injury themes, which can be especially frightening for children with bipolar disorder. Children seem to suffer more from nightmares as well as night terrors than their adult counterparts. "Night terrors and such conditions as sleepwalking, restless leg syndrome, bruxism (teeth grinding) make up a group of arousal disorders called parasomnias. Night terrors do not occur during REM sleep and are not dreams, although they have nightmarish elements. They occur instead either during deep sleep or in a transitional state between deep and dreaming sleep and are a form of confusional arousal disorder....Night terrors are rare in adults, yet Papolos and Papolos cited a 1999 study by Dr. Maurice Ohayon which found that bipolar disorders and depression with anxiety were the most common factors associated with adults who reported night terrors" (About.com). Children tend to have nightmares and night terrors in which they feel threatened on some level. Sometimes this is from a person in the night terror or maybe a fear of being abandoned by parents. Night terrors are strange because the person often will seem to be awake but will not recognize anyone and may feel extreme amounts of fear. They may scream, thrash about, or run. Night terrors are incredibly frightening and can lead a person to have an anxiety of sleeping and the terrors that come from it. Treating night terrors before they get out of hand is important for a persons mental and emotional health. SOURCE: Nightmares and Night Terrors. About.com. To learn more about night terrors, click here. Read a case study of someone who was treated for bipolar disorder while suffering from nightmares and night terrors. To learn more about the treatment of night terrors go to Healthscout.com's Health Encyclopedia. Posted by at September 25, 2005 7:26 PM
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Sleep disorders place an uncalculated, but enormous, burden on the American public. School and job performance, and even everyday social relationships, are also affected. Most sleep disorders, whether caused by physical or mental factors, can be treated or managed effectively once they are properly diagnosed. The sad part is that the majority of sleep disorders go undiagnosed.
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Posted by: Sleep Disorders at April 12, 2006 1:22 AM
my question is this really signs of bipolar or are children with sleep disorders suffering form something else as it seem they might be overdiagnosed.please reply
Posted by: lippis at April 20, 2006 8:21 PM
my questions is concerning the relationship/cause of restless leg syndrome and bipolar disorder?
Posted by: sue at June 28, 2006 8:21 AM
You would need more information on the child before you could get a ready assumption on that topic.I'll tell you first hand though some of the dreams can be hellish nightmare that can last for days. but in reality only 6 hours has passed from the time you have archived sleep.
Posted by: rob at August 2, 2007 9:50 AM