Nightmares Back With Avengeance.

[Alice Rachel]

Hey all

My nightmares are worse than theyve been for a very long time over the past week since this https://www.myptsd.com/threads/inju...ustice-system-has-completely-failed-me.56634/ happened.

When I'm just drifting off to sleep I'm shocked awake gasping in fear. When I finally get to sleep I live a whole other life full of the worst I've lived through twisted into wierd crazy dream sh*t. Sometimes I've woke up screaming other times crying and others just completely drenched im sweat.

In my days im managing my anxiety ok, doing all the coping strategies Ive learnt and not doing too badly considering but it's as if it's all coming out in my nightmares.

I'm having to use a lot of willpower to get into bed even when I'm exhausted because even though I'm very very tired facing the dreams is just so horrible.

It'll pass won't it? Is it that the court case dragged up so much of the traumatic yuck that I'm just processing it in nightmares?

I don't want to end up staying up all night til my body forces me to sleep because that turns into a horrid cycle that ruins my days and makes it harder to cope and make a semblance of a life as well.

Thanks for listening to me ramble any support or advise would be much appreciated

X

 

[Gadgie]

Yea! With you on that one, that's exactly how I get my nightmares, just as I'm nodding off. I also wake up screaming and covered in sweat.

I have to go get a cold flannel to wipe myself down, when my late wife was alive, she used to do my back for me. Most times I'm too scared to go back to sleep in case I have another one, which has happened in the past.

They are the worst nights, some nights I don't sleep at all?

 

[Alice Rachel]

It's horrid isn't it, that was so sweet of your wife with the flannel, my partner just rolls over tries to hug me like a bear and goes back to sleep.

Do u get it all the time? I get sort of flare ups, Ive managed this one without having a night where I don't sleep at all, Those nights are the worst