Diagnostic criteria and codes - sleep wake disorders - nightmare disorder
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What is criteria A for nightmare disorder?
Repeated occurrences of extended, extremely dysphoric and well-remembered dreams that usually involve efforts to avoid threats to survival security etc. during second half of major sleep episode.
What is criteria B for nightmare disorder?
On awakening from the dysphoric dreams, the individual becomes rapidly oriented and alert.
Specfiers for nightmare disorder?
Specify if:
- During sleep onset
- With associated non–sleep disorder, including substance use disorders
- With associated other medical condition
- With associated other sleep disorder
- Acute: Duration of period of nightmares is 1 month or less.
- Subacute: greater than 1 month but less than 6 months.
- Persistent: 6 months or greater.
- Mild: Less than one episode per week on
- average.
- Moderate: One or more episodes per week but less than nightly.
- Severe: Episodes nightly.
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