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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Night terrors in Adults??????

When my son was not yet three, he had a night terror. I'd never seen such a frightening episode in my life (I was only around 22.) He screamed, over and over, "MAMA! MAMA!" and I kept trying to hold him, telling him I was Mama, but to no avail. Finally, it was over and he just went back to sleep. It never happened again. So today as I was farting around on the internet, I stumbled across "Night Terrors in Adults." WHOA! For about the last two months, I finally discover, I've been having night terrors. I have a therapist and psychiatrist and medical doctor, and not one of them told me what was happening to me. I mean, I'd do this like (at its worst) three times in a 24 hour period. I didn't know what in the hell was going on with me--it was so freaky. They work like this: you're happily sleeping away and suddenly, you wake up screaming names, yelling, "Who am I?!!!!!!" and you run desperately around the house, all the while having not the faintest idea of why you are doing this. It is what it says it is: NIGHT TERRORS. See, I'd have figured that out by myself except I thought it only happened to toddlers was rather rare, and certainly wouldn't go on and on, day and night after night. How to fix it? Well, there's the problem, eh? Because no one really knows anything about it. If there's anyone out there reading this who knows someone who has this, or has this herself, please; let me know. I feel very alone with this malady, which is, well---terrifying. And it's not just the night terrors, either. My grown son who's living with me for a short time hates the way I wake up in the morning normally. I always joked about it, saying, "Well, I'm the toaster girl, I just pop outta bed like a piece of toast from the toaster." Yesterday though, he used a word that made me stop and think. He said, "When you get up, you're frantic." Sounds like Linnie Lou has a few problems to take care of; rather, solutions to find. I just don't know why I'm so weird.