Title: Sleep-related dissociative disorders (SRDD)
Authors: Dr Kushel Verma, Vaishali Sharma
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v8i3.85
Abstract
Sleep-related dissociative disorders (SRDD) are defined as dissociative disorders that can arise throughout the sleep period during well-established wakefulness.1 Nocturnal behavior of patients with SRDD may correspond to the behaviors observed in dissociative disorders However, some patients have presented nocturnal behaviors that represent reenactments of past traumatic incidents, self-mutilating behaviors, violent behavior, and psychogenic events.1,2 This suggests that behaviors in SRDD may resemble daytime DD but are not limited to them.
Herein we describe the case of a patient with sleep-related dissociative disorders and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (NES) as symptoms of nocturnal dissociation.
