[mikeysmom322]

I recently have had a diagnosis of PTSD. I was having nightmares and my doctor put me on prozatin 6mg and the nightmares stopped but I still get crazy dreams. I hope she can increase the dosage. One day I has a dissaccotive event. I felt like a thinking robot, it never happened again. I now have feelings throughout the day of intense anger, then I feel sad, IDK. I want to just get through it and I don't know how. Any advice would be appreciated.

[Open Eyes]

A lot depends on the kind of trauma that caused the PTSD, or if you are challenged with PTSD and complex PTSD from your childhood.

Each person is different, and one doesn't just snap out of it, it takes time, for some more time than others.

OE

[venusss]

You need to come to terms with it, heal psychologically and slowly move on. But sometimes the impact is lifelong.

There is one theory that dreams are way of our brain to deal with the stuff that is in subconscious so we don't go crazy...

there is a technique that helps (somewhat) with trauma nightmares (and bad dreams in general). Trauma Nightmares and Lucid Dreaming - Kellevision

I don't really know anything about this. The only thing I can offer is that, based on my own experience, if you carry around allot of stress, it has a way of breaking through to the surface at differing times & in different & unexpected ways. You don't always necessarily have the same symptoms all of the time. So one day you might feel like a robot, which I would guess might be a type of dissociation. Another time you might experience intense anger. Yet another time, you might just ache all over as though you're coming down with the flu... but you never actually get sick. At least this is the way it is for me...

[Hellion]

Well from what I understand its not really something that totally goes away, but people can figure out ways of managing it better...but that varies to. Sometimes I feel like the worse part about it is feeling vulnerable and threatened and then embarrassed/ashamed of that if anyone sees it.

[mikeysmom322]

Thanks for the page on dreams VenusHalley, it makes sense. I guess it's something I just have to work through. The anger and frustration I feel throughout the day is hard though. I even get mad in my car or waiting on line which is something I never did before. Sometimes the anger just comes and lasts for hours at a time. I don't know what I'm mad at and nothing seems to help this. I know that I have bad feeling towards the people who hurt and treated me like a piece of garbage, called me names, threatened and frightened me. Deep inside im hurt, but it's coming out in anger.