Afraid to Sleep, Weird Dreams

I've never been afraid to sleep before but I am just so fearful of it now, I hate it.

I've been diagnosed with clinical depression and I know that it's probably the meds doing it but it still scares me.

It's only happened twice but sometimes I will wake up in the middle of the night, sweating, not able to grasp my thoughts. Sometimes when I try to go back to sleep I think I can hear a woman laughing at me or talking to me like I am in a dream. I hate it. It's scary and weird and I just hate it.

I guess I just want some advice on how to make it so this doesn't happen. I'm afraid of auditory hallucinations because my mom is bi-polar and when it's really bad for her she hears voices. I don't want to end up like her.

Help!!

The laughing is probably memories of your mother laughing when you were to small to recall it.

It is external, and it is just memory that is replaying itself in your dreams. Thus you will not be like your mother and be hearing vocies.

My advice is dont be to critical of yourself. The things your mother said to you were not always true! No need to internalise them.