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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman,

and today's episode we are talking about nightmares versus night terrors,

what to do, how to respond, and how to tell the difference.

And joining me is Dr. Helen Egger, who is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry

at the New York University Landgon Health, and also the former director of the NYU LH Child Study

Center. She's also the head of Little Otters and the author of dozens of papers and articles.

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Not all tantrums are screaming and crying and banging hands against the floor.

Sometimes you see other behaviors like breath holding or head banging.

How can we address those kinds of tantrums?

So I'll treat them separately, holding breath for most children they're going to stop

when they need to breathe. So I would not get too worried about that. They're not going to,

I mean, I have never, perhaps it's happened, but I think it would be very rare for a child to hold

his or her breath until they passed out. So you would respond the same way as you would?

I would not worry about that. Okay, so people can just continue to be present, regulate themselves,

and wait for that to stop. Yes, and it will stop. Head banging, I think, is really

I think focuses on what we talked about before about safety, right? So if your child is

actually, you know, banging his head against a floor or some hard surface, that's not okay,

right? And so in that case, you would want to either, you know, have the child have pillows

around them, right? Banging your head on pillows is different than banging your head on the floor.

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