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.

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Vaishali Sharma

Clinical Pschologist, Regional hospital Solan H.P.