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Old Jun 01, 2014, 06:41 PM
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Hey Jordy,

I get terrible nightmares and terror and sweats and such...not every night as I'm going to sleep, so this may not help you...

One thing and old T helped me with was the recurring nightmares (for me of being chased and tortured etc in tunnels..) Anyway, she convinced me that everynight, as I lay down to sleep, to think of detailed weapons or whatever with which I could fight off or hide or escape the dream monster men and all that they did. She empowered me. I don't know if that would help, but you might try it for a while...and the ability to get to cache of extra weapons that I knew might be helpful...I think an animal to call, since normally are not judgmental, and the protection they might offer would help.

The second thing that helped was quite by accident. Am on a very high dose of antidepressants. So I started taking 100 mg in the AM as I'm supposed to, but in order to not wake up so sad, I thought...let's take the other 50 mg at night. It has helped a fair amount unless I'm under a whole lot of emotional stress...AND it has calmed the nightmares unlike any of the other medications that we had tried for them....

Just two little ideas...take or leave or talk to pdoc and see what they think..
Best wishes...I know this is horrid and the lack of good sleep just re-cycles the anxiety into the nightmares etc.

Gentle hugs...sleep with the angels,
WB
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Thanks for this!
Jordy