For the past 3 weeks, my husband has been convinced that I am waking him up on purpose. When this first started, he said I was touching him in my sleep. I’m a really light sleeper, I sleep on the edge of the bed, and we have a California king sized bed. I didn’t believe that I was touching him, but I built a wall with the comforter between us. He woke me up several more times that night and the following nights with the same comment.
After a few days of that, he moved on to saying I was shaking my leg to wake him up. He would get out of bed and watch me sleep and would then wake me and tell me he saw me shaking underneath the covers. The thing is, I woke up when I heard him get up. I wasn’t moving. This repeated for the next few nights with both of us getting more and more agitated until I decided to sleep in the spare bedroom. Everything was fine for a few days. We both got full nights of sleep!
But this week it has escalated again. Now he can apparently hear my covers shake from across the house. He will knock on the door to the spare bedroom about an hour after we go to bed. He will tell me that I am keeping him awake and I need to stop moving and be quiet. I tell him I’m not making any noise and he insists I am lying to make him feel crazy. I have caught him standing outside the bedroom, listening for noise. I can see his feet under the door, he’s there for more than an hour. And he gets up repeatedly throughout the night, listens, and then wakes me up to complain. I asked him to record the noise and he said the noise is too soft for a recording.
He tells me it’s not a delusion because it is happening. But I’m not making any noise. I've asked him if he was just hearing the new a/c unit. We just got a new one last summer and it makes more noise than our previous one did. He insists that I am making the noise and that I am doing it on purpose.
I don’t know if he is developing schizophrenia (he is 26) or if this is just manifesting from stress? He's not hearing voices, so I'm unsure. But, I’m not getting any sleep with him waking me up every two hours. He is irrational at night and then acts like nothing is wrong the next morning when I tell him it’s unacceptable. I do not believe he will go to a doctor on his own, he loathes going. I want him to get better and to stop waking me up.
Is there anything I can do?
**TL;DR;** : Husband is waking me up claiming I am waking him up with touch/noises and I'm not. How can I help him?
Submitted August 01, 2018 at 10:25AM by throwaway08012018- https://ift.tt/2vsU9ZM
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