Sleepwalking and other crazy things.

I used to be a sleep walker. It was the most confusing feeling ever. I was being repeatedly raped to this point in my life. So I get the connection between mental stress and it causing sleepwalking. But technically how and why. Of all the ways for one's mind to deal with things, why sleepwalking. I would wake up in my sleep in odd places (in my room or house) I could not see. I might not have been fully awake. I would have panic attacks in my sleep because I could not sort out the details of where I was and how to get back to my bed. I would have panic attacks. It happened so often I learned to just lay down in the floor where ever I was and stay put. It seemed to lessen the panic. (my boyfriend at the time would desert me at night and leave me, he came back later with "conditions" I would have to meet to get back in the truck) I changed clothes in my sleep, ate in my sleep, walked, and even showered in my sleep. Due to this man and also due to being unable to either wake up enough to know were I was in my room or because it was dark and I could not see, I have a great fear of the dark still today. I was just curious if anyone knows how great amounts of stress correlates to sleepwalking and other strange sleep habits.

Sleepwalking is Very common among us ADDer's. I would sleepwalk when I was a kid, up until around age 14 or so. I was afraid of the dark too. I also would talk in my sleep and until my diagnosis I would awake in a semi-conscious state and not be able to stop eating something from the pantry. Many ADDers have really poor quality of sleep.

This can improve greatly after you find the right meds. I sleep like a baby these days

Cool. I am learning so much about ADD. I have 3 kids now. I sleep great once I clear my mind enough to go to sleep. It's most likely not ADD but HUBBY. I was 15 or so when the sleepwalking was happening. It lasted about 2 years. The last time I sleepwalked was 20 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at my grandma's house and my boyfriend at the time(now my H) had triggered me with the rape type of issues. I remember curling up in the floor and sleeping right there terrified I would start having sleepwalking and panic attack episodes again. Thank God I did not. It was a one time thing related to the rape thing.