BloomInWinter
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Welcome to the forum, @domesticabuse. I'm sorry for all you have been through.
My therapists assured me that my nightmares were my brain's attempts to begin processing and healing from my traumas. They were very intense for years. I developed avoidance of sleep due to them.
It got better when I stopped raging in my head about the fact I was having them. I stopped calling myself weak, stupid, and many other self-harming phrases that only increased my distress.
As I have processed my traumas, they have gotten better. Every trigger that I go after in therapy and real life gets extinguished, and the nightmares attached to that trigger seem to go away.
I still have a lot of nightmares, but they are nowhere near what I used to have. Nightmares are no fun, to put it mildly. But our brains are trying to heal while we sleep, and it will not always be like this. You're working your way through. That is something to be proud of.
You deserve healing, comfort, and love of yourself. May you find those things here and in real life.
My therapists assured me that my nightmares were my brain's attempts to begin processing and healing from my traumas. They were very intense for years. I developed avoidance of sleep due to them.
It got better when I stopped raging in my head about the fact I was having them. I stopped calling myself weak, stupid, and many other self-harming phrases that only increased my distress.
As I have processed my traumas, they have gotten better. Every trigger that I go after in therapy and real life gets extinguished, and the nightmares attached to that trigger seem to go away.
I still have a lot of nightmares, but they are nowhere near what I used to have. Nightmares are no fun, to put it mildly. But our brains are trying to heal while we sleep, and it will not always be like this. You're working your way through. That is something to be proud of.
You deserve healing, comfort, and love of yourself. May you find those things here and in real life.
