Ptsd

[Cat26538]

I keep having having weird but horrible dreams. I’ll be at work and cops will come talk to me to tell me my family has died in a massive car accident. Another one is I get into a bad car accident. Another dream that I have is I end up in the hospital with cancer. I wake up panicking and crying. Idk what that means. It scares me so much. It happens when I’m asleep and while I’m awake.

[Celtic27]

Hi cat26538 sorry your getting these horrible dreams or nightmares as thats what it sounds you are having ! The fact that you are waking up panicking and crying would point to deep trauma or events that have happened to you or events youve seen at somepoint! It

If this keeps happening to you try asking your doctor for councilling or something to allow you to have a deep sleep ! Please take care david !

[Cat26538 in reply to Celtic27]

It happens to me when I’m asleep and while I’m awake

[Cat26538]

I didn’t change medication. It was just increased

[Cat26538]

I’m not sure

[peacewmyself]

go online and try to listen to positive affirmations and/or meditation background sounds to relax before you go to bed....it may help??

[Centerforkids]

Hello Cat,

Sometimes dreams represent heavy little-rocks we have buried (denied), from the moment in which that experience happened to us. This is only natural. This is a human beings way of surviving that moment because emotions can be so strong that they sometimes feel like they can hurt us, and worse. This happens as much with children as adults.

Based on what I am reading by our peers in response, I feel intuitively that the best thing to do is to 'get that stuff out of your mind, by somehow emptying it in a safe, therapeutic way, possibly through writing out the dream until more of it is now out, into the world on paper, then in your mind. Our minds have ways of playing games with us, and the less we get rid of, the more we leave inside with which they play as tools against us which come out as dreams, day dreams, flash backs, etc..

If you cannot afford an analyst, therapist or anything of the such, writing, drawing, it out, and even talking out loud to a friend, animal, or even to and with yourself is so much better then keeping it in.

At the end, you can always match the representations in your dreams to your life and the pieces therein.

I know its hard facing and feeling pain from memories can be excruciatingly painful but at the very end (the real beginning) one can look ahead every night at one less nightmare, one less day-mare, and how much stronger you are inside and how much you can handle in terms of facing and dealing with pain and memories, then you ever did before.

Respectfully,

Me

[Cat26538 in reply to Centerforkids]

I start seeing a therapist today

[Centauri]

I was having bad dreams for about five months after I quit smoking weed.. what really helped me was working out late at night right before I went to bed. Occasionally I will miss a night at the gym and The bad dreams return. I only run about a mile and a half on the treadmill with short bursts of sprinting.. then I do abs, curls, bench, and typical shoulder work outs. Before I worked out I thought I was going to need meds but I resisted. I spent a few years in Iraq and Afghanistan And self medicated with the wrong types of weed when I returned. Working out at the gym is my new drug!