How To Stop The Bad Dreams

[Lost-lady]

I feel close to losing hope almost every time I sleep it's like my own personal hell I have tried everything I could get hands on
It seems like there's not much left

 

[desiderata310]

Working through trauma in therapy helps. I also take prazosin. It doesn't stop them but it makes it easier to deal with. Yeah, it's an alpha blocker but it helps. For some they stop altogether. Others it just takes the edge off

 

[LLMertens]

I have also gotten some relief with prazosin

 

[elektriknathan]

Positive self talk helps me deal with them. Hey, it's alright to get a 5am wakeup call

 

[Keming]

Try a websearch for lucid dreaming, or ask T if they can teach it. The idea is to enter sleep with a thought lodged deep enough that it persists into R.E.M. sleep, that either provides comfort or provides an escape (back into wakefulness), Takes practice.

I go to sleep walking through a snowy wood, completely alone, with the scrunch-shuff of my boots in snow, and snowfall. When the nightmares come they're... less significant. Still bad, but not consuming, because I just came out of a pleasant wood, and I can go back Doesn't always work, but at least I'm not afraid of falling asleep - the nightmares might find me but the wood is mine.

 

[Lost-lady]

I feel kind of like it's my attachment to people giving the nightmares something to use against me today I woke crying because my dream was telling me to end my life
I am a very gentle person I don't want to hurt anyone but I also don't want to always have to move or be always unhappy I'm really at my wits end

 

[shatter eyes]

I feel close to losing hope almost every time I sleep it's like my own personal hell I have tried eve...

I feel like that too... I am scared to sleep because I wake up with bruises blood ripped out hairs and most recently a bloody eye. Prazosin did help but the nightmares returned. I usually wake up with a loud scream or kicking. My chest would be wet. I sometimes fall sleep again.

My friend tells me my nightmares are a sign that my brain is cleaning house.

I invested in an ultrasonic diffuser and lavendar oil and apple orchard oil. I hope it works.

I wish you and all our readers well.
Thank you for this place of safety when we each have a lonely hell.

 

[Lost-lady]

Thanks
I think a large part of the problem is I keep missing my general practitioner appointments due to tiredness from passing out

 

[SGT1209]

I feel kind of like it's my attachment to people giving the nightmares something to use against me to...

I wrote a daily/whenever journal. For me, I needed proof I was experiencing all that was happening within from my traumas; that it was real (no-one will ever read it). I made a GP appointment, T appointments, attended CPT sessions and did my homework. Tiredness (mine due to insomnia) - I made sure to make appointments in the late afternoon; after all, getting to sleep at 0500-0600 (for a couple of hours) after lying there awake all night was not going to get me into their office anytime in the morning.

I hope you find a way to keep your GP appointments.