Serious nightmare problem?
I know that since a really bad car accident, which caused me to lose a baby, that I have PTSD. What is weird(the medication they put me on, I couldn’t be on if I got preg) I stopped taking. Now they are coming back, but I can’t remember the dreams.
My boyfriend tells me I wake him up. They don’t seem like "night terrors" by their definition. I don’t sleep walk. I was preg again and lost a baby, which wasn’t really a baby. It was a cell cluster in my fallopian tubes. The baby I lost would have been born this month.
What I dealt with was seeing people murdered and not being able to stop it. Clearly from knowing my baby died, but it wasn’t always kids. Now I can’t remember my dreams but my boyfriend says I wake him up. Am I having seizures? Panic attacks in my sleep?
If your answer is "go to the doctor", don’t bother with your 2 points here. They haven’t helped. Drugs haven’t helped. I believe in Cognitive Behavioural therapy, but don’t have the money right now.
When I ask my boyfriend for details he avoids it. He did take the 5 precepts-he turned buddhist. I think he is not telling me the truth because he thinks it is all in my mind. Or is it in my body. I am getting scared to sleep again.
There is a quiz for the presence of P.T.S.D., via page E, of section 1 in ezy build, below. Some of the symptoms include "flashbacks", sleep disorders, especially nightmares, and just staring blankly. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is addressed at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris in sections 33 – 34; examine the http://1-800-therapist.com/ & http://www.metanoia.org/choose/ websites, and use the locators in those sections, and section 1, and phone book, and/or various associations for psychiatrists and psychologists, to find the nearest one using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy).
In EMDR, a therapist will ask you to revisit a traumatic event and remember the feelings, negative thoughts, or memories associated with it. While you are doing this, the therapist may hold up two fingers about eighteen inches from your face and move them from side to side. You will be told to track the movement of the therapist’s fingers with your eyes. As you concentrate on the traumatic event during therapy, you are trying to bring its memory to life. The mental imagery you are able to conjure up during the therapy session is then processed, aided by your eye movements, facilitating the processing of painful memories, enabling some of the powerful emotional states involved to be discharged to some degree, and helping to achieve resolution and a state involving less painful emotions.
EMDR has 8 stages. Professional EMDR is always much preferable, and Opester, (who gives it a glowing recommendation) a therapist with more than 20 years experience, and a former contributor, here, stated that it was one of only two disorders which can be completely cured. Sometimes propranolol, a beta blocker, is administered prior to being asked to recount the traumatic event, reducing the emotional charge associated with it, as it is re-recorded in your memory (which has been shown to be plastic, at least to some extent, with many people). Check out medications first at: http://www.drugs.com/ and http://www.rxlist.com/ and http://crazymeds.us/ and http://www.askapatient.com/
If unable to afford it, or to locate one nearby, contact the county/local mental health agency: any therapy on offer may prove helpful, particularly if combined with appropriate medication. Contact your county/local mental health agency, and find out what help they can offer. (U.S.A.) Try phoning 211, or 411, and Google: "clinics; mhmr; (your city); (your state)" Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is also recommended, and has been used successfully, with PTSD. Some people, however, may benefit more from psychotherapy, or counselling, at least until they are some way along the path to wellness, and feeling psychologically robust enough for the harsher CBT (a free E course in it is at: http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome ).
Most people are suggestible, to some degree, so you could either seek professional hypnotherapy, or, quicker, cheaper, and more conveniently: http://www.asktheinternettherapist.com Defeat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) CD – MP3 or http://www.hypnotictapes.com POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME (DISORDER) PTSD, OVERCOME
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Comment from Patrica P
Time November 19, 2009 at 7:06 am
im so sorry you lost two babies i think its stress you need to talk to a syciatrist or sycoanilist about your feelings and it will help you to overcome the nightmares i hope it helps good luck god bless you you have been through so much
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Comment from shaneris5
Time November 19, 2009 at 7:11 am
There is a quiz for the presence of P.T.S.D., via page E, of section 1 in ezy build, below. Some of the symptoms include "flashbacks", sleep disorders, especially nightmares, and just staring blankly. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is addressed at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris in sections 33 – 34; examine the http://1-800-therapist.com/ & http://www.metanoia.org/choose/ websites, and use the locators in those sections, and section 1, and phone book, and/or various associations for psychiatrists and psychologists, to find the nearest one using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy).
In EMDR, a therapist will ask you to revisit a traumatic event and remember the feelings, negative thoughts, or memories associated with it. While you are doing this, the therapist may hold up two fingers about eighteen inches from your face and move them from side to side. You will be told to track the movement of the therapist’s fingers with your eyes. As you concentrate on the traumatic event during therapy, you are trying to bring its memory to life. The mental imagery you are able to conjure up during the therapy session is then processed, aided by your eye movements, facilitating the processing of painful memories, enabling some of the powerful emotional states involved to be discharged to some degree, and helping to achieve resolution and a state involving less painful emotions.
EMDR has 8 stages. Professional EMDR is always much preferable, and Opester, (who gives it a glowing recommendation) a therapist with more than 20 years experience, and a former contributor, here, stated that it was one of only two disorders which can be completely cured. Sometimes propranolol, a beta blocker, is administered prior to being asked to recount the traumatic event, reducing the emotional charge associated with it, as it is re-recorded in your memory (which has been shown to be plastic, at least to some extent, with many people). Check out medications first at: http://www.drugs.com/ and http://www.rxlist.com/ and http://crazymeds.us/ and http://www.askapatient.com/
If unable to afford it, or to locate one nearby, contact the county/local mental health agency: any therapy on offer may prove helpful, particularly if combined with appropriate medication. Contact your county/local mental health agency, and find out what help they can offer. (U.S.A.) Try phoning 211, or 411, and Google: "clinics; mhmr; (your city); (your state)" Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is also recommended, and has been used successfully, with PTSD. Some people, however, may benefit more from psychotherapy, or counselling, at least until they are some way along the path to wellness, and feeling psychologically robust enough for the harsher CBT (a free E course in it is at: http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome ).
Most people are suggestible, to some degree, so you could either seek professional hypnotherapy, or, quicker, cheaper, and more conveniently: http://www.asktheinternettherapist.com Defeat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) CD – MP3 or http://www.hypnotictapes.com POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME (DISORDER) PTSD, OVERCOME
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Comment from Mr Pink
Time November 19, 2009 at 7:32 am
I wish I could have dreams of that calibre.
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Comment from chef.jnstwrt
Time November 19, 2009 at 6:59 am
Have you tried meditation?
I suffer from anxiety and depression and PTSD and the only relief I have from my mind is quiet meditation and some sort of release like writing (about anything) and exercise.
I always had anxiety due to childhood trauma, but a traumatic pregnancy in in early 20′s sent me into a downward spiral. My list of ailments were insomnia, anxiety, depression and I was afraid of dying at any moment of anything.
My husband was raised by very caring parents who taught him the practice of Zen meditation. Zen was not the way to go for me, but something about trying to rid my mind of thought, if even for a moment was very appealing to me. As I began reading about meditation I was also visiting doctors and taking some meds. Some helped but others made me feel worse. So, I made a pact with myself to spend a half hour every day meditating and writing. I would sit in total silence without any distractions for 10-15 minutes, simply counting my breath. Inhaling deeply through the nose and exhaling through the mouth, only thinking of the number of breaths I had taken. I would usually at this time count to 100. It is really hard to keep bringing your mind back to a simple number, but with a little practice you find these pockets of peace and quiet. You don’t worry about your body, or memories or worries. What this led me to was the realization that all this was just my mind, and really nothing outside of my body, AND I had control over it.
That’s my 2 cents, I hope you feel better…
Edit: It is your mind/body. But what is going on in there has nothing to do with punishment or reward. I hope that makes sense to you.
I’m sorry about the troubled sleep, that is a hard one to fix. I am in a constant struggle of sleeping too much or too little, luckily with some equalibriam in between.
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