A 42-year-old patient with severe treatment-resistant depression and psychiatric comorbidities attempted suicide five weeks after hospital admission. After starting dextromethorphan/bupropion, her mood improved and suicide risk decreased, allowing discharge.
Pregnant women in their last trimester report nightmares more often than a representative sample of women aged 14 to 93. Nightmare frequency is closely related to subjectively experienced stress during daytime. Baby-related dreams were correlated with nightmare frequency but not with daytime stress. The findings suggest that stress plays a key role in nightmares during pregnancy, and future research should examine nightmare disorders in pregnancy and whether brief interventions like Imagery Rehearsal Therapy could help.