My mental health nurse says I need to talk about what has been going on with me. That some how it might help. I have been doing okay, but at night I have been having nightmares. Bad ones. Two themes 1) car acident out of control and I can't control where the car is going then I crash. 2) I am in the mental hospital and they take away my med. that is working and force me to me to take meds. That make me worse. I get sicker and sicker untill I lose myself compleatly. So scary and I can't get out, I lose my husband and all I love. Left alone in hell/ mental hospital. I am so scared. I can't sleep the nightmares come every night I am so tired. I can hardly stand it. I go back to sleep and they are there. I don't know what I am looking for in the support group? But here I am asking for help any way I can get it. I have been in the mental hospital a lot. But never have I had nightmares about it... Living it was a nightmare by its self!
I"ve been dealing with night terrors for over a decade. Never been able to find a doctor to take it seriously. As bad as the exhaustion gets (and it effects everything) its still better then sleeping and the pain that comes with it. The only thing I can suggest is something that worked for me is to "sleep" with the tv on. It helps keep me out of REM 4 where the nightmares are the worst.
@JustJenifer okay good idea thank you that should help!
They have medications that can help with nightmares. I had nightmares for a long time. I still get them. With the attack I had today, I'll probably have another one tonight. I used to go days without sleeping because of the nightmares. I'm afraid to sleep tonight. Your dreams relate to fear and powerlessness. Maybe you can work on finding the root of those feelings. That might make your dreams subside.
@ak0511 true, maybe. I have so much stuff in my life hard to know what is causing it:(
I use to have nightmares very similar to that and sometimes worse. Some were reoccurring ones since I was little. It seemed when I went to sleep I lived another life. Since I got with a trauma therapist and worked thru alot of the memories from the childhood abuse they went away. For the first time ever in my life, they went away. I still have some periodically. When I do I write down the feelings I was having in them--more so than the actual details. I keep my journal by my bed. Then I try to relate the feelings to something in today or from the past and I work on processing that memory or what it is in today triggering it. It is alot of work to process all the pain that is hidden inside but it is very well worth it.
@blessedboss gosh great post thank you. I will think about what you said. I did a year of PTSD therapy I know what it is like to work threw things.
Last 3nights started having bad dreams but that is the side effect of the sleep meds I am on
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Do you take trazadone?
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