Need help with distress tolerance

[Horselover54]

I'm having extreme anxiety over a nightmare I had last night. I'm trying to get a hold of my psychiatrist, but it's difficult. I want to take an Ativan, but it will knock me out. That's usually a good thing, but my nightmare was that I had a psychotic breakdown and was having HORRIBLE hallucinations and I couldn't get out of it. Now I'm afraid if I fall asleep again, I am going to get trapped in that again and have a breakdown for real and never get out of it. HELP!

[designguy]

Anxiety can easily make you blow things totally out of proportion and distort your thinking. It can also make you attach meaning to things like dreams that are totally meaningless. The more you fuel the anxious thinking the more it persists. The solution is to surrender and accept what you really have control over and what you don't.

You might benefit from the youtube videos of Paige Pradko about distress tolerance and also the DARE Anxiety book and youtube videos or the books and videos by Dr. Claire Weekes.

[Adlon57]

I could do with that sort of help myself, I have been trying to get a hold of a psychiatrist, but it's difficult, my GP knows my trouble, but I would have to actually pay for one privately not via NHS in my area. I am a claustrophobic, and have been since childhood, I am 65 disabled, any I have got hold of have been expensive, I need more help! Certain times I have repeating nightmares, enclosed places etc. I live on my own, several times a year I have to rearrange house, especially bedroom furniture, when the dreams start. I have no bedroom door, just a large curtain. I have epilepsy, so a double bed is imperative, also bl###y heavy! Like yourself I need help! Good Luck!