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Originally Posted by earthangel1
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.
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I am glad you think the Latuda is helping. Do you have a dream journal? I find it helps to write the dreams down straight away then forget them and go about my day. usually this helps unless it is a particularly bad dream.
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