Nightmares.

[Mommaredfox]

I wonder, if I can fall asleep, if I dont take my medication for nightmares, can my nightmare actually kill me or cause me to die in my sleep? Obviously not peacefully, but at least I would be gone. I dont have the balls to kill myself. One of these days all I have to do is push a little harder on the razor blade. Just a little harder. It would cure the nightmares, anxiety, depression,PTSD, and the cutting all at once. I just need the balls to go thru with it. I hope and wish my nightmare would kill me. Please

 

[Fadeaway]

If nightmares could kill, I would have been dead along time ago.Welcome to the forum though. There are a lot of people here who understand and are either going through, or have gone through what you are going through.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

Are you taking meds?

 

[Mommaredfox]

Thank you. I was hesitant to find support groups for my "problems" because I figured people just dont care. But now I am glad I did join. Its feels better knowing I am not alone.

 

[Heather]

I had the worst nightmare. My daughter's therapist and I were driving in the car. We pulled up to a mansion and there was a huge Olympic sized pool.

She began running towards the pool and tripped, falling into the pool. The pool was empty and she fell about 30 feet. She was lying there and couldn't get up. She was moaning and writhing in pain.

It was so real it was awful.

 

[The Black Phoenix]

@Heather, ugh, I feel your pain. A lot of mine have to deal with the deaths/torture of the people close to me, and my cats. I don't talk about them much anymore, because I think it has traumatized most people that I've told them about. I've also been gunned down more times than I can count.

@Mommaredfox, I don't think they kill the body, they only make death attempts on the soul. I think it gets better, hang in there.

 

[Heather]

@Mommaredfox You are definitely NOT alone. So much support here. Post as you need to and you'll always have an ear.

 

[Gadgie]

When I have my nightmares, sometimes I wake up screaming, as all my nightmares are actually real live events that I've gone through in my past?

Some of them go way back years to when I was a kid, and others are from horrific events that I've gone through in my life time.

Unfortunately there are quite a lot of them, as I served in the forces, worked offshore and over seas in the oil construction business, and spent a few years in the ambulance service.

During all that time, I did got involved and saw some not so nice things. According to therapist, I saw many years ago, these events were all locked away in a file in my brain, and there they stayed for years.

Then a trigger shocked my brain, which then released all that information back into my memory again.
I'm still scared of having these nightmares, but they say that there is nothing the can do to stop them?

 

[Meryl09]

Dear all,
It is a very important topic also to me. I am struggling with nightmares everyday. I have tried using different techniques. Meditation was useuful to a certain extent but sometimes I could not fall asleep afterwards. What have you tried?

 

[Gadgie]

After I've had a nightmare I'm too scared to go back to sleep, in case I have another one? So, I make a cuppa and sit and watch TV, or go outside for a smoke.

I've been so tired that I'm actually nodding off, but I still can't go back to bed, most times I wake up on the settee a few hours later, and wake up cold and confused.

Of course, the lack of sleep catches up with me, I get grumpy, agitated and short tempered, I just can't help it. At least being on my own now makes it easier for me, as I can't vent my frustration onto anyone else.

 

[Meryl09]

What have you tried to help yourself? Cause I can see it is very irritating to you.