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unknown issue..contd..part 2
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions posted in the Mental Health forum are being answered by Dr. Roger L. Gould, author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the UCLA. Department of Psychiatry. Topics covered include anger, attention deficit disorder (ADD), bipolar disorder, dementia, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), learning disabilities, memory, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic, personality disorders, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, stress, transitions, and work problems.
unknown issue..contd..part 2
by gaurav96, Mar 14, 2008 01:01PM
just few days back he has again started to show such odd behaviour..and it is difficult for me to digest such kind of problem exist..but there is a doubt whether it is done purposefully or it is a genuine case of any problem...he just wakes up at night and starts walking and keeps walking up and down but it is not night walking..he feels disconfort in stomach...he wakes up very suddenly and keeps walking..everything is normal in the day...because of sleepless nights he speaks very pitiful and sometimes very tough...he is also a person with supersttition....so avoids taking medication feeling that sleeping pills may make him sleep for lifelong....he avoids eating potatoes,,,payaya..because he feels it started because he had it at that time..it starts with an 2-3 hrs of sleepless night and gradually increases to total sleepless night...generally lasts 15-40 days...
he is having acidity and gastric problems..takes a spoon of antiflatuant,antacid tonic or ENO(antacid)..everyday and during issues like this..he feels that gives a bit relief but it is temporary..Last time it happened he hardly slept and this time he sleeps atleast for some time say 2 or 4 hrs..and again just wakes up suddenly and makes everybody panic!! ...i feel he is a bit mentally disturbed but behaves very normal yet abnormal..he is forced to think much because of sleepless nights!!
Doctors have been prescribing antacids and ALPARAX SR...but he resists it..we even tried mixing the medicine without his knowlege in tea..but he came to know..so stopped drinking tea at homee..would go to a tea shop to drink until that period....is it any kind of genuine problem or a psychological problem or stress related issue or any disease or whatever??? Even when i am typing this ...he just went to terrace and started walking ,sometimes joggs,jumps making it very odd....worst thing is he sometimes or maytimes wants somebody to accompany him in his walk ..and thus making others health worsen....
kindly advise
he is having acidity and gastric problems..takes a spoon of antiflatuant,antacid tonic or ENO(antacid)..everyday and during issues like this..he feels that gives a bit relief but it is temporary..Last time it happened he hardly slept and this time he sleeps atleast for some time say 2 or 4 hrs..and again just wakes up suddenly and makes everybody panic!! ...i feel he is a bit mentally disturbed but behaves very normal yet abnormal..he is forced to think much because of sleepless nights!!
Doctors have been prescribing antacids and ALPARAX SR...but he resists it..we even tried mixing the medicine without his knowlege in tea..but he came to know..so stopped drinking tea at homee..would go to a tea shop to drink until that period....is it any kind of genuine problem or a psychological problem or stress related issue or any disease or whatever??? Even when i am typing this ...he just went to terrace and started walking ,sometimes joggs,jumps making it very odd....worst thing is he sometimes or maytimes wants somebody to accompany him in his walk ..and thus making others health worsen....
kindly advise
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Mar 17, 2008 05:16PM
, Mar 17, 2008 05:16PM
To: guarv
As I said above I think this is a spiritual crisis with a deep psychological origin. He either has to see a psychologist who can help them try to understand this or buying a spiritual guru who can help them get through this. I think he would be better off with a guru that a Western oriented psychologist.
