88% of rape survivors suffer persistent sleep disturbances –Experts
Journal of Traumatic Stress
“We found that both sleep Latency, or the time it takes someone to fall asleep, and ‘Pre-sleep Cognitive Arousal,’ or worrying or ruminating before going to bed, were the two significant predictors of a nightmare occurring,” said the lead author, Westley Youngren, a doctoral student in clinical psychology, Kansas University.clinical psychology
“If someone took 60 or 90 minutes to fall asleep and during the time they were worried or thinking about the trauma, they were then most likely to have a nightmare,” Youngren said.“It’s priming the mind to have dream content of the trauma, which is then going to result in a nightmare.” “If an individual is raped, they can have nightmares of being assaulted again, much the way people who have been in combat have nightmares of combat again.”
Youngren said a more specific grasp of what triggers nightmare occurrences could lead to more effective treatments. “So, I wanted to do sleep research. I did my undergraduate education at the University of Tulsa, with a creator of one of the nightmare treatments.
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