This has been happening for almost 1 year, on and off, but lately more on than off. I am a single mom and we have separate bedrooms, he goes to sleep fine, then in the middle of the night he wakes up and comes to my bed...falls right back to sleep but I wake up and cannot sleep anymore. I tried explaining to him that if I don't sleep through the night I cannot function the next day. I tried sending him back to his bed, he says he is scared. During the day we talk about what is there to be scared of, he thinks someone can break into the house while we sleep. We live in a safe neighborhood, nothing ever happened to us or anyone we know that could cause him to feel this way. I imagine it could be something he watches, and the images come back at night. For 2 weeks, while my mom was visiting I slept in his room, on extra airmattress and he was fine, just knowing that I was in the room with him...I thought that from now on he was "cured" but, she left and now he started it again. I feel exhausted, sleep deprived all day dragging myself around...
Any ideas would be helpful!! Thanks!!
Any ideas would be helpful!! Thanks!!