We all have nightmares.
But imagine that at least once a week, and for more than six months, the scenario of your sleep leads you to be hanged, slit, or cut into pieces... At that moment, the nightmarish scenes not only disrupt your nights , causing long awakenings, but they also invade your days, with an impact on your daily life.
In this case, it is clear: you need to consult.
“The nightmare is a completely normal physiological process, which serves to digest emotions and
stress
,”
explains Professor Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy, head of the ChronoS Reference Center – Psychiatry, chronobiology and sleep (GHU Paris), and co-responsible from the department of psychiatry at Bichat hospital.
“Unfortunately, when it fails, with persistent distress, it has repercussions on the following night, resulting in a vicious circle and a loss of function of the nightmare which becomes autonomous in relation to its initial cause...
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