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Re: Open Eyes Sleeping and Mental Disorder ? HELP !
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Re: Open Eyes Sleeping and Mental Disorder ? HELP !
by CCF neuro MD, Jan 01, 1995 12:00AM
Posted By CCF neuro MD on January 20, 1998 at 16:12:14:
In Reply to: Open Eyes Sleeping and Mental Disorder ? HELP ! posted by Steph on January 20, 1998 at 15:00:08:
: Hi,
I was wondering if you perhaps can help me about some worrying questions
I have concerning my girl friend.
She is 22 and she still sleeps with her eyes opened, half closed let's say.
She also need a lot of sleep, at least 12 hours to feel good.
I don't know if it's important but in the morning she always has a
mouth smelling something like formic acid or acetone ?
She is quite irritable, and become really mad, e.g. when she hurts her
elbow on a chair, she becomes mad and hit the chair violently with her feet.
Even in public, she is really out of control for a few minutes and you
are not allowed to talk about the subject.
She is also very obsessed by her image, she likes a lot to be taken in
pictures.
Most of the time she is nice, but she can change suddendly of mood.
Becoming mad, and hungry for stupid things.
Her father is also like that, nice but suddendly because they feel
-oppressed- they become mad and hungry. They almost never talk about
their problems and tend to run away from them.
Can you tell me if open eyes is a symptom of something at this age ?
Ceasar mad disease ??? or where I can find information on the internet ?
She becomes really hungry and touched when you try slowly to tell her she
is -mad- and should be treated.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my tarzan english...
Sincerely
Steph
=
There is no link that I know of between the sort of behavioral problems you
describe and sleeping with the eyes half open.
The eye issue is probably not relevant and I would not worry about it,
The smell of acetone on the breath is associated with liver disease but to be
significant the person would have to have very late advanced liver
disease with jaundice.
As regards the behavioral problems this sounds like poor impulse control and
a certain degree of immaturity but does not fit the criteria for a
major psychological disorder.
I would be very reluctant to tell her that she is mad, these are probably only
exaggerated personality traits, a psychologist would probably be able to
help her with srtategies to control anger and other i mpulses
In Reply to: Open Eyes Sleeping and Mental Disorder ? HELP ! posted by Steph on January 20, 1998 at 15:00:08:
: Hi,
I was wondering if you perhaps can help me about some worrying questions
I have concerning my girl friend.
She is 22 and she still sleeps with her eyes opened, half closed let's say.
She also need a lot of sleep, at least 12 hours to feel good.
I don't know if it's important but in the morning she always has a
mouth smelling something like formic acid or acetone ?
She is quite irritable, and become really mad, e.g. when she hurts her
elbow on a chair, she becomes mad and hit the chair violently with her feet.
Even in public, she is really out of control for a few minutes and you
are not allowed to talk about the subject.
She is also very obsessed by her image, she likes a lot to be taken in
pictures.
Most of the time she is nice, but she can change suddendly of mood.
Becoming mad, and hungry for stupid things.
Her father is also like that, nice but suddendly because they feel
-oppressed- they become mad and hungry. They almost never talk about
their problems and tend to run away from them.
Can you tell me if open eyes is a symptom of something at this age ?
Ceasar mad disease ??? or where I can find information on the internet ?
She becomes really hungry and touched when you try slowly to tell her she
is -mad- and should be treated.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my tarzan english...
Sincerely
Steph
=
There is no link that I know of between the sort of behavioral problems you
describe and sleeping with the eyes half open.
The eye issue is probably not relevant and I would not worry about it,
The smell of acetone on the breath is associated with liver disease but to be
significant the person would have to have very late advanced liver
disease with jaundice.
As regards the behavioral problems this sounds like poor impulse control and
a certain degree of immaturity but does not fit the criteria for a
major psychological disorder.
I would be very reluctant to tell her that she is mad, these are probably only
exaggerated personality traits, a psychologist would probably be able to
help her with srtategies to control anger and other i mpulses
