My personal experience has been that GABA powder from the health food store eliminates nightmares without disrupting REM sleep and dreams within a week. GABA depletes under prolonged stress. Depletion of GABA creates a cascade of braim-body imbalance which spiral into anxiety and depression, bodily tension, indigestion/malabsorbtion...

I invite you to read pain researcher Billie J. Sahley's ten dollar book GABA the Anxiety Amino Acid. It is informative. It's an excellent little resource book for anyone who might experience pain, anxiety, depress8on, post traumatic stress...

Or you can try the patented medicine gaba-something. Lately when I say I use gaba docs assume I mean this pharma-med. They sound very enthused. I assume that means they are havi.g good experiences. Nightmares are half of ptsd. Sleep deprivation psychosis and accidents and substance abuse grow from sleep.aversion due to nightmare. The advantage of the pharmaceutical is...uh...insurance covers it...it may be better. I got rid of nightmares with the cheap powder from the natural grocery.

Sleep meds die not work for me. Neither did sleep hygiene or natural methods to induce.sleep. neither did car?lium or xanax which fill gaba receptors. When the e body is anxious, it will not leep. Drugs may make it loopy, but it will fight to stay awake. It may fight harder, perceiving druggedness to be a threat to survival.

To be drugged into an altered state, or in sleep paralysis while having nightmares or night terrors is an lawful experience. I refuse sleep medicine and strongly warn against for this reason.

There is a reason why so many of us drink abnormally. It isn't to "forget". It's to be unconscious without dreams. Alcohol increases ruminations, bit if you knock it back you can sedate yourself and be awake on time for work. Don't do it. I mention it because I am sick to death of hearing **** from people who don't know PTSD but parrot cliches about drinking to forget and drugging to escape. I am alive today because I could live without work with money to drink a fifth of Jameson every few nights, washing down vitamins to reduce the damage. I wasnt drowning my sorrows. I was avoiding psychosis and suicide. I could have been taking GABA and putting my life back together, but I didn't know.

I hope the pharm med works as well. I know the docs who mentioned it sounded elated.