Brian's Journey with PTSD

@golaj

I have really been hit hard with no sleep and a lot of dreams. This equals the equation of being tired all day long. Those dreams both related to events that I saw an not related, but the same emotions attached lead into the following day. It is like I can’t get away from any of it.

Have you ever just wanted a break so bad that your brain could rest. I try with meditation, and it helps to a point. I just had my Fluoxitine doubled, and that helped some. The dreams and there effects lead to more anxiety and panic attacks. What a pickle of a hand I have been dealt.

Some days I wonder if it is worth fighting, and just survive reminding myself this too shall pass. However, lack of sleep just makes it extremely hard to continue to push on, but I will fight no matter what.

Anyone else have ideas for helping to get better sleep. I have tried the medication route, and non-medication route with little success. Any other ideas would be extremely helpful. Thank you.

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    hereiamlord2017

    Sleep, very illusive to say the least. Though I may not remember the type of things that you do, I lived in trauma for 16 years and then added to it with the choices I made from there. I’ve tried one thing after another. Meds don’t work on me very well at all, so I have used natural remedies for years…only a bit better. I’ve kind of given up on that fight and in a way that is what has helped. LoL we fight so hard for sleep that we can prevent it in the fight to get it. With that has come a certain amount of peace. But still that is only limited sleep. I often use music, or have a story read to me. I can sleep when someone reads to me. Keeps me focused in the now, and not the past. What helped you sleep as a child? Use that knowledge to ease some of the fight. I’ll be praying for you.

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