
Personality Disorders Support Group
Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.

ponygirl74
As the Dr House on that show would put it. Can't they just say nightmares? Does anyone else here get them still that are Adults? My dreams are strange and most of the time violent. I'm always fighting something. Most of the time I'm a vigalinty going afyer child abusers or other people who are crul abusive people - animal and abuse anyone who can't defend themselves. My mind just won't stay calm or peacful for any length of time. I've had theise tyoes of dreames since I was very young. Not long after my mother married my stepfather, who was one of the main abusive people in my life- more emotinal then physical. So does anyone else here get nightmares or am I just odd?
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And, yes, like Bjork said, night terrors and nightmares are very different things. For one things, nightmares often wake the person in the middle, and they remember them. In a night terror, the person cannot be woken by exterior means, and often incorporates the person trying to wake them as part of the terror.
While night terrors in adults and children SEEM to be the same, the CAUSES are different. A lot of children get night terrors; they usually grow out of them. In adults, there seems to be a link between night terrors and physical/sexual/emotional abuse or PTSD. There's also been a study linking night terrors with hypoglycemia.
When I go into a terror, I have no idea where I am or what I'm doing. My boyfriend says my breathing gets rapid, I begin to pull away from him physically, and if he tries to touch me often I start screaming, writhing, trying to "escape" if I'm not already, and he has to hold me down. Sometimes I fight him for up to half an hour, then all of a sudden, I'm there again, I'm awake.
I'm really concerned about the talking in my sleep.
Something that may be helpful for you to check into is some dream sites. See if your dreams are trying to tell you something, but many adults do dream and still have nightmares/terrors. They usually relate to our "wake state" though and have hidden meanings. I'm not the best advice giver but i hope this helped you sleep a little better :)