PARASOMNIA – A SERIOUS SLEEP DISORDER

Parasomnia is a serious sleep disorder in sleep stages no III and IV when the person’s physiological system is activated during awake- sleep transition or during sleep.
Sleep walking, sleep eating, teeth grinding and scramming with terror,are all signs of parasomnia.
Unlike normal when brain works as the reception center and monitors the physical activities , in parasomnia body works without being monitored, and hence the risk is increased.
Major causes of parasomnia are of course stress and depression. But where as adults have lesser reported cases it is common in children.
Many parasomnia patients have serious risks of injuring themselves, for example, in sleep walking he may try to climb down the staircase and fall.
The actions of parasomnia patients are beyond their own consciousness or plainly they are not registered in the brain and hence the patients cannot recall what he did, unless someone awakes them or stops them.
Parasomnia patients acts with eyes open but the registration of the vision is absent and when questioned may reply slowly and with irrational replies.
Parasomnia must not be confused with psychosis; in psychosis the patient has lost the contact with real world permanently.
The simple way is to arouse the patient and let him sleep again. There are of course medicines targeting to cure the basic causes, stress and depression.