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Hello - how do you cope with nightmares?

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Mystikaul

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Hello,
After one year of my trauma i've decided to look up for a forum like this.
Never thought it's a really big problem but today it really started bothering me.
I've had quite a bad situation in the past, a group of bad people (gang) were terrorizing me for money because of their cravings to drugs and their way of understanding their lifes, they only made money by terrorizing other people, and doing bad things like stealing and etc. They terrorized me for about one year, threatening me that if i decline to give them money, i will have serious problems, and one day i got beaten up. Never seen such anger in people nor in animals, two of them got sentenced on perole, and are in freedom. Since the day of trauma i've stopped dreaming, and after maybe half a year i started to dream but only nightmares about those people. I get up at night covered in sweat, dream about being killed and etc. I want to have normal dreams again. How do you cope with such nightmares, community? Handle me a way to outlive this. The doctora cant halp anhthing, because they just prescribe alot of medicine, which is harmful and toxic. HELP.


By the way, sorry for double posting but didn't found the edit button. It destroyed every aspect of my life, my social life, i'm afraid yo make new friends, to socialise with people, which is not good, because i'm afraid to be hurt again like that.
 
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Have you thought about seeing a therapist and discussing what happened to you? Nightmares about a trauma are the brains way of trying to make sense of something and process it. If you speak this through with the right type of therapist it may help. Did you speak to your dr about it?
 
This may sound childish but I sleep with this huge stuffed elephant which helps me. When I wake up from my nightmares I normally feel like I am back there or they are in my room with me or both, and I am terrified. But when I reach over and feel my soft ellie I slowly begin to come back to reality as I focus on how it feels, and breathe and hug it as tight as I can. It reminds me of where I am and makes me feel like no one can hurt me again. And try to watch your breathing as you do this.
 
That also happens to me. One thing I do which works is to always be travelling with a favourite snack or coffee, just something I like. What I do is I focus on the taste, smell feeling whether warmth or cold, and just think and put all my energy into that. It is focusing on the here and now. Think about why I like it the flavours. Now every now and again it will pop back in and you will feel distressed but just keep doing it.
 
How do you cope with such nightmares, community?

I had these kinds of bad nightmares forever,, but after I got into therapy and starting working on my past, the nightmares began to change where I was getting stronger and more of an empowering type of thing which eventually started to help me in my waking life more and more.

those dreams are kind of strange, they leave a mark in the brain, and all the day after them you just think and remeber the past,

I have these occasionally and I really hate how the feelings linger and haunt me all day. I did not experience the same kinds of nightmares that you are currently having mine fitted to my trauma.

I had a bad one last night that I could not remember but the feelings of not being enough to cope with whatever I was dreaming about and the total fear stayed with me for a very long time.

I too sleep with stuffed animals that do help me but therapy and meds have helped me the most. I think a therapist is what you need to look for and a good trauma therapist and maybe a psychiatrist too. I wish you well.
 
Prasozin i take also.
Recently when i get nightmares i wake up and go back fighting by visualizing anything i can remember.

You can only beat me up so many times... so i said fk it bully bring it... i was able to have same dream few times and different wakings. I felt i got my ass kicked as i woke up more exhausted than usual. Out of surprise next few days i had funny dreams that made me wake up laughing. This was new because for years i had non stop dark dreams and terrors screaming thrashing in bed.

Stuffy animal friends watch over us. They keep us safe and our secrets too. They watch us sleep. They are guardians.
 
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