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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour
BeyondtheRainbow, after what you, and then Beth, wrote, I wonder how common things like sleepwalking and talking in one's sleep are? I have had my episodes, as well, into my adult years. My husband occasionally tells the stories of what I did and/or said.
I've had plenty of fragmentary and en block blackouts in my life, too. Not exactly sleepwalking, but the same kind of feeling thing. Yea, a few alcohol-induced, but many more bipolar mania-induced. I can't help but wonder if there is a predisposition to having them that's related across the board.
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For me I assume it's some kind of neurological glitch that is related to the bipolar. I did not sleep even as a newborn and I've been sleepwalking since childhood as well. It can be a side effect of some meds so my pdoc likes to know when I'm doing it but it doesn't really matter what I'm taking.
I don't know if I do it more when in any mood state. That would be interesting to pay attention to.
I also want to talk to my therapist about the dissociation Beth mentions. Nobody has ever mentioned that as part of it but I'm not sure I've ever talked to him about sleepwalking unless it just has happened to occur the night before I saw him and I was laughing about it. I try not to get upset by it because I can't control it so I might as well laugh when I can. (This is definitely not always and I also would never laugh at someone else's experience, just it helps me cope).
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD.
Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily
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