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Oct 24, 2008, 04:45 AM
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I'm fed up
I'm fed up of living everyday, minute by minute, or half hour by half hour. I'm fed up of going to bed on a night and having disrupted sleep and v.disturbing nightmares... fed up of dreaming about John  my dreams and nightmares are torturing me... they're getting really badThe antidepressant I've been given is also an anti anxiety and a sleeping pill... my doc says it should make me sleep and get rid of my nightmares... I want to take it purely to get rid of these disturbing nightmares, but I'm still so scared of taking it. I'm a mess. I miss John. I love him... I wish I could be friends with him, but how am I meant to do that........ aaaaaaaarggggghhhh, I was doing ok before this happened!!!!!!!!!! Molly 
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Oct 24, 2008, 07:07 AM
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Please take your medication Molly!!!
 
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Oct 24, 2008, 07:10 AM
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((molly))))) please know all of us care
call your Dr back if you need too take care of you muffy |
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Oct 24, 2008, 07:33 AM
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(((((((((molly))))))) Sweetie, take your medication. Give it a try. It is a measured dose of a safe medication. Give it a try and talk to your doctor. Hold on to how well you felt yesterday, how excited you were. Sometimes minute by minute is how we have to hang on. You're just starting your journey--someday you'll look up and realize you haven't lived minute by minute but day by day. It's good that you acknowledge your feelings for John, but put them in their right place, hon, and move forward. You can do it--you already have.
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Oct 24, 2008, 07:40 AM
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I keep telling myself 'today I WILL take my meds' but I have to take it on a night and that's a tough time for me... my anxiety goes sky high and thinking of having to take something else! makes it worse.
Bet you all think I'm over-reacting and just annoying not taking it I'm sorry.I will try.... I'm going to have to, 'cause the nightmares are killing me and there are ways of coping with depression and anxiety like CBT, distractions, breathing etc... but there is no way of controlling nightmares is there? So it's kind of like my only hope as far as they're concerned? I don't know I'll try ...and the nightmares and sleepless nights are just the tip of the iceburg
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Oct 24, 2008, 07:59 AM
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Of course you're not overreacting or annoying. We are just concerned for you. Night times are horribly hard for me, too. I totally understand. That's when the activity of the day is over and your facing a long night where sleep doesn't come or if it does it's filled with things worse than you ever thought possible. I've always suffered from nightmares--I'm 39 and can still remember some of my worst ones from childhood. Most of them I can laugh at now (like my cousin turning into a wild pig and chasing me down the road! scared the crap out me!) but some still scare me. When I lived in Virginia Beach I went 4 nights with zero sleep--none, not even an hour. I was too scared. Finally the doctor I worked for told me to go home, take some Benadryl and if I don't go to sleep, don't come in to work. You aren't alone, you aren't overreacting and you aren't annoying. You're real and you're hurting. But don't let it negate all your progress. OK?
(Good Lord do I ever babble!!!! Sorry)
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Oct 24, 2008, 09:03 AM
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((molly)))) most, if not all of us understand... what you are doing is a big and brave move for yourself.. keep true to those inner feelings and dont let them fool you... remember your future as much as you can.. thats why you are doing this... take what comfort you can in knowing that the choices you make now are truly making the future better.. dont put too much pressure on yourself to be perfect and not make any mistakes.. we all do.. dont beat yourself up either, k ? (cant forget about the bully factor can we?)... follow your heart hon, it matters and will make huge differences down the road... its hard, and people care....
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#8
Oct 24, 2008, 10:13 AM
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*hugs*
I agree with everyone, even though it's hard take the meds - I mean.... if you take them it has a good chance of helping you. If you don't take them,... you're at the same place you are now. So meds at least have a chance of working? And if they don't work, you can go to your doctor and he/she can help you find ones that DO.  hugsI know it's hard - I'm scared of meds myself Quote:
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Oct 24, 2008, 10:23 AM
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everyone has great replies here
 about this : ' ...and the nightmares and sleepless nights are just the tip of the iceburg' ((molly)))) when your liminal thoughts are more calmed, the nightmare thoughts (subliminal) will calm too, so practice your calming techniques (breathing exercises) and that will definately assist with the sleeping problems |
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