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How Did You Sleep Last Night?

Took 50mg Seroquel around 4am because my brain and body were wired from an awful flashback I'd had earlier in the evening. Didn't sleep until around 8am. Horrible nightmares. Horrible horrible horrible. Woke up at about 8pm, so confused and disoriented and dripping with sweat and heart palpitations and depersonalised and convinced everything that had happened in the dream was real and I was unsafe and people I love were dead and what the hell was happening. Still badly affected by nightmare couple of hours later.
 
I've been getting good night's sleep since I started my Prozac. Right now though, it's 2 AM, I'm in my closet with my teddy and blanket with the closet door closed. I think it's a safe bet to say that my insomnia has returned, and so has my fear of night.
 
Only slept from around 3am to 6:30am with a trip to the bathroom in there somewhere. But it was actual sleep. I can tell because when I open my eyes, my face feels kinda rubbery and relaxed! I was dreaming about my family (of origin) but I don't remember it other than that it was not a pleasant dream...but no screaming or yelling stuff.

I have a relatively new neighbor above me, who I recently met. Very nice, professional type of man, my age, married but has to live here temporarily because of a work project.

I can hear everything up there, even if he just coughs! But he's very quiet and has been thoughtful about timing noisier things like doing laundry. I imagine he can hear me just as well, and it makes me kind of self conscious.

I was thinking about my yelling and screaming at night, and I would be terribly upset if I did, and he were to call the police. So as embarrassing as it was, I talked to him about it. He was quite understanding, and then joked that if I continue to scream and he thinks something is wrong, "I'm comin' in"! Hahaha...I thought it kind of cute. Actually, I feel safer with him up there!
 
I have no idea what sleep is, let alone for the hours that others have posted..... It takes so long for me to relax first before I can even begin to close my eyes. If I manage to drop off, I am then woken with such fright and fear from a nightmare... Then the cycle starts again. Anyone got any tips??
 
I slept around 11:45 pm, but then again woke up around 1 am and stayed on laptop for one hour reading good things and thinking about my life. Then again went to bed around 2:30 am. I had good sleep.
 

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