Nightmare disorder, dream anxiety, and subjective sleep quality in patients with borderline personality disorder.
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences February 1, 2008 Umit B Semiz, Cengiz Basoglu, Servet Ebrinc et al.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients experience significantly more nightmares, higher dream anxiety, and worse subjective sleep quality than healthy controls. Among BPD patients, greater dream anxiety is linked to more childhood trauma, dissociative symptoms, and impaired sleep. Those with nightmare disorder show a more severe clinical profile. The findings suggest that addressing dream and sleep disturbances in BPD could improve overall clinical outcomes.