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#1
Apr 20, 2014, 09:42 PM
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Does anyone else experience sleep paralysis on a regular basis? I often experience sleep paralysis, at least once a month, and often included with a hallucination that I'm being raped or suffocated.
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Apr 22, 2014, 09:12 AM
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Yes, every once in a while I have that happen and it "is" a challenge. I sleep with the television on at night so that when I have strange and upsetting dreams or night terrors I can focus on what is on the TV as a way to bring myself to the "now" and get my mind out of being trapped. That has been my only way of grounding myself when trapped in a bad dream where I can't just get up and get out of it physically.
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Apr 22, 2014, 07:47 PM
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Yes. Almost every night.
 I'm sorry. It's sure not a fun thing to deal with. 
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#4
Apr 22, 2014, 09:27 PM
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I used to have this, Seesaw. You have my deepest sympathy. It was terrifying!
 I haven't had an episode in quite some time, mercifully. I've been on Cymbalta for a couple of years or so now. I don't know if that has anything to do with my not having them recently.  For many years I didn't understand what was happening to me. It was only relatively recently that I learned about sleep paralysis.  My best wishes to you.
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#5
Apr 22, 2014, 09:36 PM
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Thanks.
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What if I fall? Oh, my dear, but what if you fly? Primary Dx: C-PTSD and Severe Chronic Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder Secondary Dx: Generalized Anxiety Disorder with mild Agoraphobia. Meds I've tried: Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Remeron, Elavil, Wellbutrin, Risperidone, Abilify, Prazosin, Paxil, Trazadone, Tramadol, Topomax, Xanax, Propranolol, Valium, Visteril, Vraylar, Selinor, Clonopin, Ambien Treatments I've done: CBT, DBT, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Talk therapy, psychotherapy, exercise, diet, sleeping more, sleeping less... |
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Apr 22, 2014, 09:40 PM
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Apr 22, 2014, 09:41 PM
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Perhaps. I meant to ask my psych today but didn't get the chance.
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What if I fall? Oh, my dear, but what if you fly? Primary Dx: C-PTSD and Severe Chronic Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder Secondary Dx: Generalized Anxiety Disorder with mild Agoraphobia. Meds I've tried: Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Remeron, Elavil, Wellbutrin, Risperidone, Abilify, Prazosin, Paxil, Trazadone, Tramadol, Topomax, Xanax, Propranolol, Valium, Visteril, Vraylar, Selinor, Clonopin, Ambien Treatments I've done: CBT, DBT, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Talk therapy, psychotherapy, exercise, diet, sleeping more, sleeping less... |
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Apr 23, 2014, 12:11 AM
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Have you had the hallucinations of rape or intruders or being suffocated/strangled?
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What if I fall? Oh, my dear, but what if you fly? Primary Dx: C-PTSD and Severe Chronic Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder Secondary Dx: Generalized Anxiety Disorder with mild Agoraphobia. Meds I've tried: Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Remeron, Elavil, Wellbutrin, Risperidone, Abilify, Prazosin, Paxil, Trazadone, Tramadol, Topomax, Xanax, Propranolol, Valium, Visteril, Vraylar, Selinor, Clonopin, Ambien Treatments I've done: CBT, DBT, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Talk therapy, psychotherapy, exercise, diet, sleeping more, sleeping less... |
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#9
Apr 23, 2014, 11:00 PM
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Hi seesaw. Sorry to hear that you are experiencing these dreadful nightmares.
I have terrible anxiety when trying to fall asleep, as I too have the type of nightmare you describe. I don't experience it too often (thank goodness), but when they come they are very very hard to forget. I would descride them as an evil entity sitting on my chest pressing down on me while whispering softly to me, I can't move or scream as the harder I try the tighter it presses on me. It is absolutely horrifying because it truly feels like I'm awake during this. When I finally break away and become completely conscious I can never go back to sleep.....too scared it will return. I had them many times when I was very young, I am now in my 40's and get them probably about 3-4 times a year. I have since discovered that these nightmares are refered to as 'sleep paralysis' and are universal. Every culture has a different name for them, but a common name in western culture is 'The Hag'. There is a lot of information online about this. As you would agree these are not just everday nightmares, they are extremely frightening and telling you that they are universally common probably doesn't help you much, but might help you understand them more. Be kind to yourself seesaw. Wishing you only the sweetest of dreams from now on. Q.L
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Apr 24, 2014, 03:26 AM
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I had one sleep paralysis episode where a silhouette of a person was standing next to my bed holding me down, and I was positive they were going to kill me. In another, creatures were crawling up the walls and across the ceiling trying to get at me. A third episode had me falling downwards as though I was falling through the earth, and I felt like I was vanishing. They can be pretty frightening.
When do you usually experience it? In the morning, when trying to fall asleep, or some time during the night? Why I ask is because depending on when you experience it, it would likely be due to when you're waking up. If you wake up without that particular sleep cycle completing sleep paralysis becomes much more likely to occur. I used to try to make it happen by timing an alarm clock to hit my REM sleep. The reason I did that was because it can be easy to launch into lucid dreams from sleep paralysis. |
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Apr 24, 2014, 06:36 AM
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I did do some research about them before posting. Mine happen while waking almost universally, typically because I'm waking from nightmares very suddenly.
I've read that both narcolepsy and trauma can be contributing factors. Seesaw Sent from my SCH-I415 using Tapatalk
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What if I fall? Oh, my dear, but what if you fly? Primary Dx: C-PTSD and Severe Chronic Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder Secondary Dx: Generalized Anxiety Disorder with mild Agoraphobia. Meds I've tried: Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Remeron, Elavil, Wellbutrin, Risperidone, Abilify, Prazosin, Paxil, Trazadone, Tramadol, Topomax, Xanax, Propranolol, Valium, Visteril, Vraylar, Selinor, Clonopin, Ambien Treatments I've done: CBT, DBT, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Talk therapy, psychotherapy, exercise, diet, sleeping more, sleeping less... |
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Apr 24, 2014, 12:04 PM
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It's happened a couple times fairly recently and was just weird...once it was in the morning I got up at like 6 and was still tired so I decided to sleep in longer. Then when I woke up I couldn't move at all, I opened my eyes but everything was rather blurry and I could hear things going on in the house, people talking and what not though not all of it was real.
Kept trying to move and felt too much pressure holding me back...but eventually kept fighting it till I could move which took a crap load of mental energy not sure if it actually helped or not. It was more annoying than anything because I was thirsty. I didn't really think of it as a PTSD thing though...I thought most people had sleep paralysis at least a couple times in their life.
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