Hi Kori, I have had them too and I went many nights without real "sleep" myself. I have to go on Klonopin for a while just to get some sleep tbh.

You can't just write down something you have not resolved yet and throw it out telling yourself it's gone IMHO. The only thing that helps is bringing it out, talking about it and getting the validation and comfort you never had. Being "afraid" of your bad dreams isn't going to help you either, you have to face these things that your brain is trying so hard to figure out what to do with, where to file it away so you don't keep tossing and turning at night with no way of finally "filing" these things away. That is what our brain actually does, at night it takes everything we have takin in during the day and files it away for us, "processing".

I know it is hard to talk about the past, it can get worse before it gets better, I went through that myself, but with time you will learn how to manage better and actually get that sleep you so want.

((Hugs))
OE