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writes:HiI'm writing in about a mental problem so it might not be posted as it's really the wrong place to enter such a problem but I'll give it a shot. The night before last, 2 good friends of mine and myself were all saying in a tent together. We were drinking energy drinks and having a laugh, there wasn't any alcohol at all that day (I know that alcohol can effect sleep). Despite the fact that I had had 3, 500ml cans of energy drinks in the space of a few hours, I was tired so I went to sleep. I was woken up about 30 minutes later being told that I was attacking myself in my sleep, and when my friends tried to stop me I lashed out at them and tried attacking myself even harder. I was apparently scratching/clawing at my wrist. The dream I had was one of my worst nightmares to date, where there was something like maggots eating away under my skin and I was frantically trying to get them out using my fingers. I tried to get back to sleep about half an hour later this time holding my friends hand (I felt safer that way) and about 10-20 minutes into my sleep I was squeezing their hand. At that point they woke me up again before I did anything else. And once again I can remember in almost perfect detail my dream. I was running away from the same person in the other (the person who put those things under my skin) and this beast she'd set on me, just as I was being woken up the beast was jumping at me about to attack my throat. But I don't remember doing anything to anyone, i remember being woken up with my right hand out stretched on my neck and my left hand in my friends. i didn't go to sleep after wards. I've woken up before with bruises where I've been attacked before in my dream but they've only been mild, usually fading within the next day but it's never been twice in one night, usually about once every 1-2 weeks, sometimes less.I'm planing on joining the navy as soon as I'm old enough, but I don't want this to hang over me as I'm scared that I'll hurt someone else in the dorm.Apparently what I have (according to on-line sources) I have something like sleep violence, which is supposed to be very rare and mainly effect men however they usually don't remember their dreams, i remembered mine perfectly. does anyone know if i have that or something else?My friend has offered to take me to the same psychiatrist that he went to see about his self harming; and however much I want to go and try to get this sorted out I'm terrified of going to see a psychiatrist. Also when I tried to tell my parents about my nightmares, they disregarded them so I don't want them to know about it.Would the psychiatrist tell my parents? Or is it something like they'll only tell my parents if there's a large cause for concern? From what I've told you, is what I found on the internet similar to what you think? Or do you reckon it's something else?also what are the tests for finding out the problem and how would they treat it, as i don't really want to take any medicine.Please help I'm really quite scared about ithalusorry it's so long
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reader, halu +, writes (2 June 2010):
halu is verified as being by the original poster of the question yeah i know it was a caffine overdose that pushed me over the edge, but its the fact that i've got cronic nighmares and the fact that i've clearly hurt myself before with these dreams. it's just that which has gotten me to shift my arse and actually do something about it. i know not to do it again obviously, i'm not that stupid.
thankyou again for the advice cerberus it's just difficult to bring myself to tell them, and i'm meeting my friend(toby, the friend who offered to take me to his psychiatrist, who held my hand, who's completely been there for me with everything that has happened; this and other things) at some point this week, most likely friday as the busses are more accomodating to where i live(the busses run later so i don't have to catch a bus at 4 to get home at 6, which is normally the last bus into the village i live in). and he's going to come with me to the psychiatrist. after all he went to the same place.
toby's really too good to believe, but yeah back to the point, i've got till friday to tell my parents really otherwise they'll probably find out through the shrink.
thanks again for the advice and i'll bear yours in mind lazyguy
halu xx
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reader, LazyGuy  +, writes (2 June 2010):
 Gosh, a crisis induced by the over consumption of energy drinks. How unexpected.
Why not swallow a bottle of aspirin and wonder why you are shitting blood?
You were drugged. Don't do it again.
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reader, anonymous, writes (2 June 2010): It's not a stupid way to look at it, because at the moment you are experiencing something that is beyond your control and something which you don't fully understand, this kind of thing is scary for anyone.
Your parents might have brushed those other times off and it's understandable really because those incidents don't seem that serious. I'm sure once you tell them what you told us and you divulge every detail and how long it has been going on they will take note and do whatever is necessary to help you. Ask them to talk to you seriously and somewhere without distraction and lay it all out on the table.
Just know that this can be resolved the first and most important step is to talk to your parents, if they still don't listen then you can go get help on your own in October as you will be 16.
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reader, halu +, writes (2 June 2010):
halu is verified as being by the original poster of the questionok thankyou, and i am 15, i'm 16 in october. and for some reason it feels so much easier to tell someone else about this than actually tell my parents, also the only thing they've ever noticed about this is the fact that i look tired, if i've said to them that i've hurt my arm in the night they just say i've 'slept on it funny', i've even shown them the bruises that they clearly do not look like something you'd get from sleeping on that area awquardly, and they still put it down to that.
and however much better it feels to tell someone other than my parents it still feels terrible as it feels like i'm just saying 'i'm crazy, give me something to make me look sane or lock me away' and i know that thats a stupid way to look on it but thats what it feels like.
thanks again for the advice
halu xx
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reader, anonymous, writes (2 June 2010): You need to discuss this further and in great detail with your parents. If you are indeed in the age range that your profile suggests then you cannot go to a psychiatrist without parental consent and he/she will be obliged by law to divulge your progress etc.
You must explain to your parents that this is having a very negative impact on your life and that you are risking physical harm by not doing something to sort it out.
Don't be afraid of going to shrink, they're there to help nothing bad can come out of going to see one.
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