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Started sleep walking

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twitchyrus · 22/08/2020 22:03

Over the past few months I've began 'waking up' in a sheer panic that I'm trapped in something and can't get out I'm feeling all around my bed and walls and trying to find the light switch, it feels like it goes on for ages. I'm panicked and just cannot get my bearings. A few weeks after this started I woke up and I was sat at my dressing table with a full face of make up on happily finishing off my mascara. I looked at my phone saw it was 3am and got back in to bed. Several more episodes of feeling lost/trapped have happened since. Last night I woke up trying to find the light in the same panicked state only I was in pain aswel. I snapped out of it went to the toilet and looked at my back and legs both of which was stinging. Along my back I had two big cuts that were bleeding and up the side of leg/knee was a burn/graze. I have no idea what happened to them and quite frankly I'm a bit scared to go to bed tonight incase something happens again. Any ideas on why this is happening and suggestions on how to make it stop? I'm a single parent so the only adult in the house. I can't imagine stressing about it just before bedtime is going to be helping at all

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Audreyhelp · 22/08/2020 22:07

I sleepwalk when I feel stressed . Have been outside loads of times but always go back to bed .

twitchyrus · 22/08/2020 22:14

I think that's one of my big worries now, I don't want to leave the safety of my bedroom. What if I went out and left my children on their own and have no idea about it. Do you know it's going to happen? Do you wake up or just get told the next day. I think the fact I have Injuries today that still really hurt I just haven't been able to stop thinking about it

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Audreyhelp · 22/08/2020 22:39

No I never remember anything . My husband records me I am shocked when I watch back . I do it a few times then I am ok for months went to to the doctor he said it was just stress.

EL8888 · 22/08/2020 22:48

I’ve done it my whole life. Memorable incidents include we wandering into a hotel car park when l was 8 and trying to leave my flat in London (wearing nothing but a pair of knickers). Yeah l often get injuries. I also often get night terrors

I have never got any medical input into it. I think it’s due to an overactive mind that struggles to switch off and stress exacerbates it

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