What A Horrible Syndrome!

[Glenn R.]

It seems I've gotten real stuck again the past few weeks. I wake up from nightmares with paralyzing trauma, then after several hours, I shut down and completely dissociate from all my emotions. The latter always causes my muscles to spasm.

Then I go to sleep and the same crap occurs again the following morning. It's a Groundhog Day of the worst sort.

I honestly don't know which is worse: the incapacitating trauma or the dissociation. They are both very painful and leave me feeling helpless.

 

[Laurie McLaughlin]

Hey Glenn -

Praying for you.

Hope you can find the way to see the nightmares as not so real and more like dreams and the feelings you get from those dreams like the feelings you get watching a scary movie and not so real - if that makes any sense. I am probably not saying it right but I hope the nightmares lose their power over you.

Laurie

 

[Nam]

Write your nightmares down. Make your brain work. That might be just the thing to keep you from dissociating. If nightmares are happening, there needs to be more processing from subconscious to conscious.

It's interesting that you mention that dissociation hurts. For me it does too. It feels similar to unrelenting severe nausea. A feeling of turning inside out. Very weird, disconcerting, and disorienting.

I hope you get restful sleep soon.