My mother was abusive, cruel, manipulative, spiteful, and a p********. Cool your jets, thrill seekers, this was not educational or loving. Mothers can be sick monsters too. They hide it better and geet by with it because “surely no mother would do that to her child.” I have had nightmares and sleepwalking and bedwetting episodes ever since, usually triggered by extreme stress, and those episodes, while rare, can last as little as a week or as long as a few months. Never understood what stops them as suddenly as they start. Have had a rare nightmare but no sleepwalking or bedwetting for a few years now. Then this morning I wake up to pee and realize my underwear was already wet, but bed was dry. Then coming out of the bathroom I stepped in the puddle where I had apparently sleepwalked, wet myself, and gone back to bed. It is insanely disorienting and humiliating and I hate having no control over it or knowing when it will stop.

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