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I've been asking the same question of my current (and past) therapists. His cure (like loads of other white coats) "Rewrite your nightmare for a happy ending". Na, never works. Only two things help me. My wife for nightmares and my dog (and maybe other shoppers) for flashbacks. Wife: All it...

Mil-kip. I do that all the time and it amazes SWMBO. 2-3 minutes and I'm out. Once learned, and lived, if you get a break in the day and it's drink loads, eat whats there, go for a leak, and then crash out. Curiously no dreams, what I call a black sleep. Lovely is that! Only problem is I don't...

After a day of loads of pressure brought about by having to visit a town full of triggers. I'm tired out, mentally shot, and just want to go to sleep. Except I'm sat here, typing and nervously looking at my damn pillow. I've got to know what I am in for prior to falling asleep and tonight I...

Thanks for your reply. Never seems to be one trigger time, it's mainly the content, and by the time I've cottoned on to what that is. . . . it's too late. Yet, me actively browsing the news IS KEPT to headlines, ticker tape style now, for about 5 minutes twice a day, and boy has it been hard to...

Funny isn't it. I always managed, on my own, not talking about things to anyone, not wanting to upset my wife, about a short period in my history. Then, PTSD re-emerged and TSHTF, my demons awoke big time, plus all the other gifts PTSD keeps on giving. So it came as a bit of a surprise as I...

How would you explain to a therapist what 6th sense is (which he denies exists) and how damaging it can be to your decision making, and determination, to carry out a task?

That I can't listen to fire burning as it is a sound (and smell) that triggers powerful bad memories for me. However, I'm glad you have found something that helps you.

My Tinnitus. Gets worse depending on what state my PTSD is. Anxiety, stress, lack of sleep, sort of thing. Add SWMBO getting well angry as she talks to me but I can't hear her. Ouch, the occasional bruise happens. So I went for a hearing test today. Now I know why I get to hear a mans voice...

This is not an angry question, I'm just asking for your thoughts. My therapist. She wanted to talk about my flashbacks and nightmares. I knew there was a difference but this little gem caught me unawares. "You know when you are having a nightmare"as you are awake!" WTH? I'm asleep, reliving an...

The effects of what can be seen and heard in the media is at times a hard trigger to anxiety when trying to get to sleep. Let alone a trigger for nightmares. After all the media positively droll when violence, death, and destruction are uncovered. Add reporters (sometimes exaggerated) "take" on...

It goes like this. I was a news junkie until this latest relapse into PTSD. So I forced myself to cut back to a quick glance at the headlines, the weather, and the lottery numbers. Which was working but my past keeps on cropping up by way of old buds checking in. We all do it but occasionally...

I just get angry with myself yelling at me "You ain't going to get better just lying there in your own pity party." Does it work? For me yes, but it was one hell of a stress inducer to go back to one particular pastime I loved, rifle shooting. So am I back doing that? Sometimes but...

Good for you but many like me have problems in staying asleep.

Another inquiry where "Lessons will be learned", but never are. It will end up as a waste of time and money like all UK inquiries do. The UK are great orators when pointing out problems, but useless about actually correcting them.

Never (to my knowledge) have I lashed out during a nightmare BUT my wife now knows I can speak in three languages none of which are English. One "conversation" was recorded and played back to me. Automatically I answered the question in that recording in that language. I don't know who was more...

Hi Arfie. Underlying Problems? I have too many to list but I'm a stubborn cuss so I will beat this. As for naps? Ex-mil, and always did buy into "get sleep where and when you can". Two minutes of mil sleep technique and I'm out. For how long is the problem I'm coping with. Hence me asking for...

This is all down to the latest gift from my PTSD. Last night I finally got 5 hours sleep. Only waking at 3am isn't exactly perfect. I keep a tally of my hours slept and it reads pretty poorly. "3 hours last night, woke twice, finally gave up". That's a common entry. I now nap during the day...

Journalling. My wife came up with that years ago. She used to do that as a teenager in what she called her "Gripe Book". Next day, she would read what she had written in anger and usually tore out the page, as on a re-read, it was nothing to get worked up about. So I started my own. Except I...

That I can't do as our puppy will send them flying! That's something I can't do because once the puppy wakes up, it's playtime. Fine for her, sleepless for me, and will wake the wife. We only have one door so adding locks might, in a fire, not be the best move. SWMBO thinks the best way is to...

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Caught myself sleep walking last night for the first time which is "different" from usual as I'm normally fighting nightmares most of the night. I ended up a good half a mile from home before I woke up. Good job I know the local area well and got back before upsetting anyone. So, apart from...

Thank you for your reply. Note I'm UK Based. It's been my experience that most smaller 'niche' charities are good and want to work with your needs to achieve a good resolution. BUT, the smaller they are, the less money they have to work with. However, some of the self proclaimed "BIG" boys in...

NHS set this up via a Charity (approved NHS contractor). However, it looks like 'eyes on' will only be a video link, or not, (see post). Anyway, it's annoyed me a lot as I thought treatment would be eye to eye like it was when I was fixed the first time. Although that was many years ago. Before...

A bit of a "Not much fun" gripe about whatever happened to face to face? Meanwhile, The suggested treatment for my PTSD is mind adjustment and a shrink messing around inside my head. (No, I don't do medical terminology). Meanwhile, mind adjustment (making my mind think differently) is going...

I was a combat vet and it took me years to settle down (sort of). Luckily (or is it unlucky), my nightmares are always NOW, REALTIME, and an accurate playback of really bad experiences. With me smack bang right in the middle of everything and participating in what was going on Before that...