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Originally Posted by thinker22
Does anyone else have thoughts about killing themselves, but have no intention of acting on the images flashing before your eyes...and then fear that you'll sleepwalk and do it without truly wishing to?
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Originally Posted by thinker22
That's what I've been dealing with. I have a hard time falling asleep because I worry about it. Obviously it hasn't happened, but as it might just be an irrational fear I'm hesitant to tell my p-doc or T.
Do I just deal with the fear and ignore it?
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You already have so many replies I wonder if this one will surface among all the others. I suffer and have suffered from the same thing that afflicts you. I think constantly about doing bad things to myself (there are specific terms you can't use on this website - advice!). I used to sleepwalk, and did almost kill myself by, in my sleep, walking off the high end of a summer camp tent situated on the steep side of a hill. I was caught by a fellow camper sitting on the toilet who reached out and grabbed my pyjamas as I was about to go over. I knew nothing about it and remembered nothing about it. But I never did anything like hang myself in my sleep. Tell your p-doc and T, for gosh sakes, they ought to know, and they'll reassure you about what you may and may not do when you're sleep walking. Want to know what STOPPED my sleepwalking? When I was 12, in the middle of the night, I was running (in my sleep) up and down the hallway outside my bedroom, and yelling. My father woke up and came out and shook me, and I woke up. (He went against that really silly folk belief in not waking sleepwalkers up.) I never sleepwalked again.
Take care (Hope this gets to you)
