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<blockquote data-quote="rlsnights" data-source="post: 315156" data-attributes="member: 7948"><p>Night terrors are more typical of younger children but can occur in older children. During a night terror a child may appear to be awake and aware but is not actually awake.</p><p></p><p>Does your daughter recall the night terror the next day?</p><p></p><p>Generally night terrors are considered a sleep disorder. My first priority would be getting a sleep study done ASAP. This will confirm whether the night terrors are a disorder of arousal during REM sleep or something else.</p><p></p><p>One unlikely possibility is seizures but these generally last only briefly - 30 seconds to a few minutes.</p><p></p><p>If she is not having any symptoms during the day I would second the person who suggested it is unlikely that she is having psychotic episodes.</p><p></p><p>I too would suggest that a psychiatrist may not be the specialist to start with here. I would consider a doctor who specializes in sleep disorders or a pediatric neurologist as my first step in figuring out what's going on here.</p><p></p><p>If there has been a recent trauma to the child or within the family like a death of a relative then this may be part of the problem.</p><p></p><p>Tag teaming it is a very good idea. When our difficult child 2 was having night terrors this was one of our strategies for dealing with it. His gradually reduced in frequency and then just went away. He does still talk and shout out in his sleep fairly often but does not have night terrors anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rlsnights, post: 315156, member: 7948"] Night terrors are more typical of younger children but can occur in older children. During a night terror a child may appear to be awake and aware but is not actually awake. Does your daughter recall the night terror the next day? Generally night terrors are considered a sleep disorder. My first priority would be getting a sleep study done ASAP. This will confirm whether the night terrors are a disorder of arousal during REM sleep or something else. One unlikely possibility is seizures but these generally last only briefly - 30 seconds to a few minutes. If she is not having any symptoms during the day I would second the person who suggested it is unlikely that she is having psychotic episodes. I too would suggest that a psychiatrist may not be the specialist to start with here. I would consider a doctor who specializes in sleep disorders or a pediatric neurologist as my first step in figuring out what's going on here. If there has been a recent trauma to the child or within the family like a death of a relative then this may be part of the problem. Tag teaming it is a very good idea. When our difficult child 2 was having night terrors this was one of our strategies for dealing with it. His gradually reduced in frequency and then just went away. He does still talk and shout out in his sleep fairly often but does not have night terrors anymore. [/QUOTE]
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