snakedoctor
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Hey, new to the conversation here and site...
I've been having a few more nightmares lately. I think the actual hardest part for me is seeing most people have sort of a blank stare when I tell them I struggle with nightmares as a part of my PTSD. They just don't get it. I think they think I'm talking about your garden-variety nightmare most people have. Not the ones we have with such horrific imagery you can't shake for a while and it's impossible to talk about and they shake you from sleep into full body alert. For me my heart will be going a mile a minute and it's like everything is on fire. Sometimes I wake up crying or shaking. I grew up around a lot of violence and abandonment and my dreams are about just that, violence and abandonment. Usually having to watch something horrific happening to someone or worse someone I know, or even a pet.
I used to take Prazosin for my nightmares but as I started getting better years ago the side effects got a little too much...
Anyone else have that experience of people acting weird or not understanding what it means to have PTSD nightmares?
I've been having a few more nightmares lately. I think the actual hardest part for me is seeing most people have sort of a blank stare when I tell them I struggle with nightmares as a part of my PTSD. They just don't get it. I think they think I'm talking about your garden-variety nightmare most people have. Not the ones we have with such horrific imagery you can't shake for a while and it's impossible to talk about and they shake you from sleep into full body alert. For me my heart will be going a mile a minute and it's like everything is on fire. Sometimes I wake up crying or shaking. I grew up around a lot of violence and abandonment and my dreams are about just that, violence and abandonment. Usually having to watch something horrific happening to someone or worse someone I know, or even a pet.
I used to take Prazosin for my nightmares but as I started getting better years ago the side effects got a little too much...
Anyone else have that experience of people acting weird or not understanding what it means to have PTSD nightmares?