Having had a very rough 2009 matters have gone up a notch due to the fact that I'm now being harassed by someone I did some work for some time ago.

However, my wife swears I was walking the floors shouting profanities at 5am on Saturday morning! I have absolutely no recollection of this.

Has stress ever affected you in a similar or other weird way?

do you suffer from indigestion?

Your Wife's never mentioned it.

Reflux/Acid Indigestion can trigger night terrors or similar, as can strong cheese.

Stress can induce some weird sleep-walking. Sounds like you're pretty wound up. Can you recall if you had any dreams that night?

If your concerned I'd recommend talking with your doctor, it could help.

as can strong cheese.

That's a myth.

have you ever tried sleeping on a bed of strong cheese?

I was walking the floors shouting profanities at 5am on Saturday morning

Sounds like sleep walking to me. And not that I know anything about it, but it would seem reasonable to me that stress could induce it. I wouldn't worry too much about it, as I understand, no one does anything whilst sleepwalking, which they wouldn't do whilst awake. If it carries on happening, a visit to your GP would sound sensible.

I tried sleeping on a bed of cheddar, but after a while it grated on me

Stress is likely to cause a variety of unusual behaviour. Try and compartmentalise the work problem, get a book on NLP and you should be sorted!

When I'm a bit wound up I tend to have very vivid dreams. I used to sit up in bed and serve customers over "the Bar", there would quite often be a few waiting, and I'd even have a bit of banter whilst pouring their drinks! Later on, I used to get out of bed to clear my room as I thought I was at work and was worried that I wouldn't be able to get the stretcher off due to clothes etc on the floor?

So yeah, stress can cause weird goings on, perhpas you are sleep walking?

Drac, I don't think it's a myth. If I have some blue cheese in the evening I'll often have much more vivid dreams, but conversely wake up feeling much more rested.

I hardly slept when I had stress as much as I tried to put work to one side I couldn't. It didn't help that my boss doesn't believe stress exists.

I've found doctors vary with what they will do about stress. The first one I saw signed me off work for two weeks, doctors I've seen after that haven't been much help.

shooter, are you a drinker/had you also been drinking earlier?

Hora, I'm not a big drinker. I had one bottle of bud earlier that night.

Can you develop tourette's from stress?

You need to see your GP. Prolonged periods of high stress can cause alsorts of physical problems if left untreated. Not withstanding heart attack, hyper-tension etc etc.

Seriously, talk to your GP.

stress can come out in many ways,

when I am stressed, (even when I dont think I am) my sleep suffers. being made redundant in late 08 / early 09 stressed me right out…

wonny j – Member
Drac, I don't think it's a myth. If I have some blue cheese in the evening I'll often have much more vivid dreams, but conversely wake up feeling much more rested.

May be something in this scientifically. Cheese contains tryptophan, a pre-cursor to serotonin which in turn is a pre-cursor to melatonin that helps regulate sleep. Drugs that act on the serotonin system, mainly anti-depressants, often list vivid dreams as a side-effect. A possibility but could equally be b*****ks?

Stress plays havoc with my stomach and digestion, with it becoming increasing acidic. Last time led to a severe case of gastritis that took close on 6 months to resolve.

ernie_lynch – Member

I was walking the floors shouting profanities at 5am on Saturday morning

Sounds like sleep walking to me. And not that I know anything about it, but it would seem reasonable to me that stress could induce it. I wouldn't worry too much about it, as I understand, no one does anything whilst sleepwalking, which they wouldn't do whilst awake. If it carries on happening, a visit to your GP would sound sensible.

The bit about people not doing anything sleepwalking that they wouldn't do awake is inaccurate.

People have been cleared of murder because they a have raised a successful legal defence (backed up by clinical studies) that at the time they were asleep and therefore lacked the required Mens rea. It's a form of automatism. I know of one case where a person woke up in their work place car park having driven there whilst technically asleep. Incredible but true I’m afraid. I appreciate these are extreme examples and thankfully rare!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5430624/Sleepwalker-acquitted-of-attempted-murder.html

If this persists you should see your GP.

All the best.

See your GP- he wont make you take powerful sedatives or Tranquilisers. He might offer you *them but he (or she) may refer you to someone who can help in a different way.

*You don't have to take them either- its your choice.

All the best. BTW, we arent going to be your alibi are we? 😉

People have been cleared of murder because they a have raised a successful legal defence (backed up by clinical studies) that at the time they were asleep

LOL ! I had resisted writing "hardly ever" ! 😀

Yes, I've heard of cases such as the guy who had a vivid dream as he lay in bed, that he was back in WW2 fighting the Japs, as a consequence, he woke up to find that he had strangled his wife.

But as a general rule, I understand that you are very unlikely to do in sleep walking, what you wouldn't do awake, eg you won't stab someone to death. So shooterman need not worry ! 😀

Prolonged periods of high stress can cause alsorts of physical problems if left untreated. Not withstanding heart attack, hyper-tension etc etc.

This might be the only time I ever agree with Hora, and I hope nobody is watching…

However, "messing around" with a blood pressure checking meter in Taichung airport a month ago showed I had MUCH MUCH higher blood pressure than my travelling companions. Got back, had a couple of check ups with the nurse at the clinic, and having been very careful about diet, doing a bunch more exercise, and trying to destress a bit more, BP is down from 158 over 90 a month ago, to about 123 over 70 consistently for the last week.

In the last few months I've got very stressed over work/home, hadn't ridden at all since the end of Novemeber, and so, after I knackered my feet falling down some stairs in a paint shop in Taiwan, I've started swimming three times a week instead. Feeling great now. Bought some cool goggles and a swim counter watch thing.

It's my first "wake up" about diet and exercise and stuff. I'm 40 later this year. I guess I'm getting old.

e_l, Your first post on the matter was just a tad inexact, which I thought needed a little correction 🙂

Swimming is good. Too busy? Make Time. Its only circa 3hrs out of your whole week. Plus it'll benefit your riding come Summertime.

Edit- Swimming is great at knocking down stress. My personal favourite is the sauna though. Feel sooooo mellow after a long session in the sauna.

sounds like sleepwalking to me and nthing to worry about.

Do some exercise for your stress – its the best way to deal with it

i suffer a lot from anxiety and would wake up in the night worrying about work / etc , i was given a book to read or just dip into that helped me try to control this with varying success, i thought that it might help you OVERCOMING ANXIETY by Helen Kennerley cheers

I thought needed a little correction

Thanks 8)

It's worth remembering however, that sleepwalking is very widespread, and of all the cases which must occur everyday, very few appear to end in murder. So the risk of such things happening are so insignificant, that for all intents and purposes the risk is as close to zero, as warrants, to dismiss them.

I know of one incident when I have slept walked. When I was 14 whilst on holiday, I fell asleep on a settee and I woke up the next morning to find myself in bed in my pyjamas. Apparently I had been "woken up" by my aunt and had then proceeded to get up, act completely normal, went to the toilet, did everything necessary, put my pyjamas on, and went to bed. And yet I had no recollection of any of that, so presumably it was all done in a state of "sleepwalking". I assume that sleepwalking is when you don't actually wake up properly – you are in effect, still asleep.

You wouldn't tell someone that every time they go to sleep, there is a chance of them committing murder (even though it might be factually correct) therefore, why would you suggest to someone that was possible they might do so, whilst sleepwalking ?

OP- Have you tried self-flagellation?

I've only ever sleepwalked once and that was when i was really stressed. We owned a B&B and i woke up in one of the guest rooms with no recollection of how i got there. Fortunately there was no-one staying in it at the time!

I started doing this last year. All stress-related. I was doing all kinds of weird stuff. I normally like to keep the odd behavior to my waking hours, as i generally enjoy it. So I went to see the GP

He gave me some very mild sedatives. Slept like a baby. Sorted.

I really don't know what people think a GP can do for stress. The only answer is to either remove the thing that stresses you or to learn ways of coping. Neither can be done in a 5 min GP appointment.

Unless you want some valium of course

TJ. MTFU' is all great however talking out loud with someone also helps your own thought process. Having your blood pressure is a biggie- it needs doing and by a professional. That alone could be a wake up call.

GPs arent all about giving you extremely powerful sedatives you know.

Remove the thing stresses you? How? With a magic ****ing wand?

Sometimes TJ you really are a tool. Seeing as you're so all-****ing powerful, do you want to un-bankrupt the clients of mine that went bust over the last year, oweing me shit-loads of cash. That'd do wonders for my ****ing stress levels I can tell you

I don't know how you'd do it. Wiggle your nose, or something? Click your heels together? Do tell

+1 for the vivid dreams and lack of sleep. What little sleep I get I wake up from feeling more tired and my dreams are just a long line of frustrating situations. Up most mornings at 3.30am as I just cba to lie in bed fretting. It a vicious circle, which is resulting in me just getting more and more tired.

Without my 2 rides a week I would be licking windows by now.

+1 for Binners comment re TJ too. If you find the magic wand, fookin pass it me when you have finished.

Binners – calm down

TJ said The only answer is to either remove the thing that stresses you or to learn ways of coping

The point is a 5 min GP appointment will do nothing.

If you cannot remove the stressors then you need to learn coping mechanisms – your GP is not able to do this in a 5 min appointment. They do not have superhuman powers and this is not the sort of thing they are good at anyway.

There are psychological techniques for learning to cope with stress but this takes far more than a 5 min GP appointment and takes specialist skills that a GP will not have

Edit – I have suffered really badly from stress myslef in teh past.

My 5 minute GP appointment got me some mild sedatives that allowed me to at least sleep. I didn't want anti-depressents, and wouldn't have taken them.

However, you need to appreciate that every single human being has a breaking point. And no amount of whale-noises CD's and Raki massages are going to sort anything when your life is coming crashing in around your ears.

If I sat in a GP's and he recorded my blood pressure as way too high that'd put alot of things into perspective. Actually it did. Same as the time I went to see my GP who gave me a long and good talk as to why I should stop smoking on the spot (I had Bronchitis and annual chest infections). That GP spent some time with me, questioning, probing and explaining. That was in 1999. I havent smoked since nor suffered a chest infection.

Some GPs have more time for patients and probably more time for certain patients who they think would benefit from spending abit of time on. Not all GPs are '5mins'-types who will just reel off a prescription of Tranquilisers.

Hora – Could I go and see your GP and request some tranquilizers for you?

One of the worst things is consuming alcohol.
Any amount robs you of REM.
It's in REM that the body recovers.

Also, if you're cheese-centric, add some Branston, I find it keeps me from getting in a right pickle.