[zelaer]

The past few weeks, every night (rarely missing one or two), I have been having 1-4 nightmares in a night. I've had nightmares ever since I was younger with PTSD, but they have been down to every week or so before now.
Thing is, these nightmares aren't ever the same and everything online about getting nightmares to stop relies on them being repetitive. (IRT is the only thing I've found other than CBT which seems to be using the same methods)
So this leaves me at a place where I'm just really confused about how to go about getting them to stop. Hopefully someone who sees this knows something that could help lessen the amount or something. I know how to relax to fall asleep, and can do so after I recognise it was a nightmare, but them occurring so often is still an issue.

[Thunder Bow]

Reoccurring nightmares are are usually due to anxiety. Also doing therapy can cause nightmares as your mind processes what you learned in therapy. There is no quick fix to them. As you heal, your nightmares will slowly decrease over time.

[zelaer]

Ah, okay. Thanks for replying. (and thank you whoever moved this because I was really confused which it went under)

[Lost_in_the_woods]

I also suffer from life long ptsd. Increase in nightmares / sleep disturbances happens to me when i am avoiding dealing with waking triggers, in my case usually with DR/DP, by allowing myself to slip into an unaware state, i guess my brain thinks it is soothing my mind, but it is only a band aid putting the fear on pause... but the unconcious still recieves these triggers and they require some outlet to be felt and processed. Hence increase in nightmares. Thats how i have come to understand it... hope maybe it helps you too.