Nightmares aren't leaving me alone

[Against_the_current]

Anytime i sleep i have nightmares about my family. Many nightmares. Mostly of mom throwing her tantrums and saying she will leave us to dad's new family. Yesterday i worried she will be alone, today i dream of her rejecting me. I talked to my therapist. She said rejection deeply hurt me. Mom's rejection, dad's, my friends' for nye. On nye mom was drinking, i asked her to stop, she said "you think im an alcoholic but you're a drug addict" referencing my meds. The stigma of mental health. My friends call me annoying and negative, mom calls me drug addict. Im staying all day alone now that im having only exams not classses.Nightmares are driving me crazy. I can't sleep without 10 nightmares about mom throwing tantrums and 5 nightmares about dad's baby. It is gonna grow up until i accept it. And when i waje up, my body is in the state as if it happened in front of me. Im crying, nauseous and dizzy and having headache. I feel unrested and i go to sleep again and have the nightmares again and now including grandma. And I feel like it's truth. Im going insane with these nightmares 😭

[SoporRose]

Nightmares can be torture. I have no idea how to make them go away. I tried to look up remedies for nightmares, but none of the suggestions seem useful. I think the fear of having nightmares makes us more likely to have nightmares which increases the fear which increases the dreams…

I'm glad your therapist didn't dismiss your bad dreams, but what did she recommend you do?

[Against_the_current in reply to SoporRose]

Get social support and awake experiences but this is impossible to me

[blackcat64013]

Hi,

Thank you for your post which reminds us that our brain never sleeps and can go into overdrive when not busy managing events and situations during the day.

We know the purpose of sleeping is for the brain to recharge our body and mind, ready for the next day. When this doesn't happen, we feel bad mentally and physically and worse over time if this happens for too long.

Your therapist can work on the psychology of the nightmares and how to reduce the number and severity of them.

In the meantime, you might need to see a doctor to prescribe some anti-anxiety medication which you can take at night to calm your brain down.

My doctor has prescribed mirtazapine which uses the side effect of sleepiness to give me a good nights sleep. I have taken it for a while now and it works.

I have also been prescribed Quetiapine sold under the brand name Seroquel among others, is good for short term use and gives good results too.

Wishing you all the best from Australia 🦘

[Against_the_current in reply to blackcat64013]

Hi, Thank you. Actually that's a good point. After my mother shamed me for taking klonasepam, i reduced it a bit, especially that im running out of it and i needed to have more for longer time, and maybe this influenced.

Greetings from cloudy Europe

[Mumbutterfly]

You’ve got a lot to deal with right now. You definitely don’t need nightmares adding to it. I have them too. I had them before taking clonazepam but they’re worse since I started taking it a few years ago. I tried to get off and was able to reduce to 1/4 of a pill and they got better but then I had to go back up to 1/2 before the holidays and they got worse. Some of my other meds had nightmares listed as side effects and I was able to get off of some of them.

Drugs.com is a website that has lots of information on medications including side effects and interactions with other medications. I was on several that were not supposed to be taken together and was able to get off of most of those.

Hope things get better for you.

[Against_the_current in reply to Mumbutterfly]

Thanks