Venting I'm afraid of myself

[Dark Spring]

I'm afraid to sleep, my nightmares are coming back and they are more and more violent, that scares me a lot because sometimes I can't tell if something I dreamt of or if it really happened. I'm afraid of going crazy and I'm ashamed to tell my psychologist or my psychiatrist

I'm taking anti-anxiety and antidepressants, when they increase my dose of the antidepressant I'm fine for the first few weeks and then everything comes back again, the nightmares, the constant anxiety, the fear of the night and it stresses me out so much because I don't know how much the antidepressants can help me

 

[Myforevercharlie]

I'm sorry you have to go through this. When having nightmares ( and there are a lot of them) I find peace of mind in meditation. Did you ever try that?

 

[Cant Maintain]

my dreams are coming back too after forgoing THC. Mostly my dreams involve the friends I've lost. It's always a tease and leaves me broken when waking up. I am sorry you are dealing with such terrible nightmares. Maybe the antidepressants will help. Let them build up in your system.

 

[_Kaira_]

I'm sorry you feel that way. I just got done staying awake around 35 hours. Body crashed and it was lights out for idk, 3? My sleepy pills don't really work when I take them. What's worse I completely flip my sleep patterns all the time. Probably going to be another all nighter tonight....

 

[Dark Spring]

I find peace of mind in meditation. Did you ever try that?

Thank you very much, I will try to do it

my dreams are coming back too after forgoing THC. Mostly my dreams involve the friends I've lost. It's always a tease and leaves me broken when waking up. I am sorry you are dealing with such terrible nightmares. Maybe the antidepressants will help. Let them build up in your system.

Thank you, I'm sorry the same thing happened to you

I'm sorry you feel that way. I just got done staying awake around 35 hours. Body crashed and it was lights out for idk, 3? My sleepy pills don't really work when I take them. What's worse I completely flip my sleep patterns all the time. Probably going to be another all nighter tonight....

I'm so sorry this is happening to you, it's really horrible not being able to sleep. A couple of months ago I was several days without being able to sleep well, I slept very little and with constant nightmares that's when I looked for help and they gave me the antidepressants and anxiolytics, being sincere they help me to be able to rest a little, but the nightmares upset me a lot, I wake up very distressed

 

[Lordsudbury]

I'm the same. I did something bad in April. In the summer months I developed psychosis because I couldn't sleep more than 2 hours. I'd wake up, smoke weed to try and sleep, and repeat for a whole month . I had to quit both my jobs. It never ended. Eventually I had to just leave town. I went traveling for 3 months. All to distance myself from my trigger.

Now I have intense ptsd about almost everything; her (the trigger), my town where I tried to kill myself 5 times; work where I also tried to kill myself and went crazy; my apartment where I experienced the deepest low of my life.

I'd say at this point several months after the fact I am sleeping better and usually only wake up once at like 430am (instead of every two hours). But still nightmares. But as you can see I really had to distance myself and take huge leaps to get there.

 

[Dark Spring]

I'm the same. I did something bad in April. In the summer months I developed psychosis because I couldn't sleep more than 2 hours. I'd wake up, smoke weed to try and sleep, and repeat for a whole month . I had to quit both my jobs. It never ended. Eventually I had to just leave town. I went traveling for 3 months. All to distance myself from my trigger.

Now I have intense ptsd about almost everything; her (the trigger), my town where I tried to kill myself 5 times; work where I also tried to kill myself and went crazy; my apartment where I experienced the deepest low of my life.

I'd say at this point several months after the fact I am sleeping better and usually only wake up once at like 430am (instead of every two hours). But still nightmares. But as you can see I really had to distance myself and take huge leaps to get there.

I'm very sorry you had to go through all that and I congratulate you for being able to get out of there and feel better. Hugs

 

[Lordsudbury]

I'm very sorry you had to go through all that and I congratulate you for being able to get out of there and feel better. Hugs

Thanks. Feels like it will never end though. Once something is part of your story you can relive it everyday. Sure that's how you must be feeling to some degree.

 

[Dark Spring]

Thanks. Feels like it will never end though. Once something is part of your story you can relive it everyday. Sure that's how you must be feeling to some degree.

Yes, but I hope someday to be able to handle it better, I trust that therapy and medication will help me because I am not sure I want to kill myself, however at night I think about it constantly

 

[MariV]

i feel you...i have hypnagogic hallucinations

 

[SunnyDaze]

I'm on nightmare medication, and they work like a charm. My nightmares were extremely vivid and horrifying. I forget the name of them, but don't be afraid to speak to a doctor or psychiatrist about the nightmares, there's way to stop them.

 

[k75]

I'm afraid to sleep, my nightmares are coming back and they are more and more violent, that scares me a lot because sometimes I can't tell if something I dreamt of or if it really happened. I'm afraid of going crazy and I'm ashamed to tell my psychologist or my psychiatrist

This isn't something to be ashamed of, and you're not going crazy. You should definitely bring it up with your doctors. They can help.

I'm prescribed a medication called Prazosin for nightmares. I have PTSD flashbacks in dreams, as well as panic and anxiety nightmares that make me wake up in an absolute panic. It's often hard to tell if the dreams were real or not, and it's disorienting. The pills help, although I'm sloppy about taking them

 

[Dark Spring]

This isn't something to be ashamed of, and you're not going crazy. You should definitely bring it up with your doctors. They can help.

I'm prescribed a medication called Prazosin for nightmares. I have PTSD flashbacks in dreams, as well as panic and anxiety nightmares that make me wake up in an absolute panic. It's often hard to tell if the dreams were real or not, and it's disorienting. The pills help, although I'm sloppy about taking them

Thank you very much, I will discuss it with my psychiatrist at the next appointment he gave me.

 

[k75]

Thank you very much, I will discuss it with my psychiatrist at the next appointment he gave me.

Good luck! From my experience, it's not a difficult request. I had no idea there was a medication for it, but I happened to mention to my psychiatrist how broken my sleep was and he wanted to try it. It might take a little adjusting before it works well, though. They started me at 1mg, and that was ok but not great. It was better when they increased to 2mg.

 

[Dark Spring]

Good luck! From my experience, it's not a difficult request. I had no idea there was a medication for it, but I happened to mention to my psychiatrist how broken my sleep was and he wanted to try it. It might take a little adjusting before it works well, though. They started me at 1mg, and that was ok but not great. It was better when they increased to 2mg.

Thanks, I didn't really know of a medicine for that. I hope that in my country it is available, I really feel that I need it

 

[k75]

Thanks, I didn't really know of a medicine for that. I hope that in my country it is available, I really feel that I need it

Oh, that didn't even occur to me. I hope it is. I think this particular one is mainly a blood pressure med that's used for other things. So if not, hopefully there's something else.