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Originally Posted by Wander
The Latuda could have set off your PTSD. Contact your pdoc asap to talk options. Nightmares should not have to be tolerated, esp when they have such as bad impact on you. I have PTSD so I can imagine how awful it must feel right now. Can you do anything to distract yourself and ground yourself in reality?
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The dreams are now not nightmares but reminding me of painful events, like a rejection or my awful time at ministry school. I waisted 3 years of my life in ministry school and now my dreams are reminding me of it. And yea the PTSD doesn't help. But the Latuda IS making me feel better now. I've learned to remind myself it's just a dream, and it has actually been healing at least this morning. In my dream I cried to this compassionate man about my time at ministry school and he consoled me and I woke up crying. Not the dream I wanted to have, but it impacted me and today I feel stronger. I will give it a couple of weeks. Maybe the Latuda is bringing out things that need to be healed and corrected. But PTSD is definitely crippling and it makes me isolate. Today in a coupe hours I got to a man with dementia's house to take care of him for the weekend, and I don't want to have bad dreams then. I know I've taken and anti-nightmare med before and it has helped, but dropped my blood pressure when I wake up.