I dont know if turning to a website for advice or help is a good place to go but it is a good start. I am 23 years old, recent graduate from college and working full time/managing my own business in the City - and for the past four years I have been having night terrors twice a week or more. As a child I didnt have the terrors (or cant remember) and they now have developed to something even more serious. I dont know the onset other than being tired or lack of sleep but the emotional state they put me in at night is starting to become bothersome.
Every terror my fight response kicks in and either I get up ready to fight or are so nervous about what I "see" that I am on edge and have to calm myself down. The terrors range from seeing bug/creepy crawlies - people in my room - or physically thinking I am being torn from my bed, dragged through a wall, down steps and am paralyzed from the neck down. It has gotten to the point where I can sometimes talk myself down and convince myself that nothing is actually - every terror I am completely awake and aware of my actions, save for the times I cannot move my body but can see what is going on around me. It worries me that I have had so many terrors that I can now start to control them - myself and fight the urge to be able to move and remember what happened and what things looked like for weeks at a time.
They have been pretty tame until recently and nothing out of the ordinary happened to trigger it - from what I can tell. But, the terror seemed so real and put me in such a state of shock even though I was awake and lucid the whole time that it kept me up the entire night. I dont know what to do moving forward, I havent had any traumatic life events happen to me that would maybe cause an onset of this. I do find it strange that I will be totally content sleeping in the middle of the forest by myself, in a hammock for a week or two at a time getting sound sleep but when I am at home in my bed they dont seem to stop coming.
But I would like to find someone to talk to or learn more about people who could help.