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Nightmares which affect daily mental health

Marra

Hi everyone, I'm fairly new here & not great at communicating so here goes.. I'm 60yrs old, diagnosed autistic 8yrs ago and also diagnosed with Complex PTSD. I care for my two autistic adult children at home. I dream every time I sleep, even if I dose off for a moment I dream- it sounds impossible but it's a fact. At night when I sleep I have huge epic dreams which are complicated, emotional, distressing and when i wake up every morning I am distressed, shocked, frightened. It takes until mid afternoon or evening for these feelings to ease and then when I sleep again the dreams happen and it's like a reset' in my mind & on waking I'm back to being very distressed etc. This has been happening daily/nightly for as long as I can remember, decades. I've been seen by 2 psychiatrists and a psychologis have tried different therapy methods to try and control my sleep and 'influence' my dreaming, and have even tried prescribed Prazosin at various strenths to try and ease the dreams but nothing has had any effect. I understand why the dreams are happening- my mind has alot to pricess and this is happening while i sleep- but what i need is fir the dreams to ease off in intensity or even just stop. As you can imagine I'm beyond exhausted every day. Does any of this sound familiar to anyobe else? Does anyone have any advice? Thank you for reading this.

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  • Dreams are strange. I've struggled to sleep properly for decades. I can get to sleep but not stay asleep, something wakes me up, I have no dreams.

    Since being diagnosed in June, I have spent hundreds of hours trying to make sense of my life, going through all the memories and behaviours, using AI to advise, as it knows lots of psychology. It took a while to figure out how best to use it but now I have a narrative that pulls everything together. Having resolved the things that I couldn't understand, including relationships, having some supplements and breathing exercises, and working on being calm, I am finally starting to sleep better. I was never not stressed and the rest and digest mode was never really taking over. I even had a dream the other night, albeit a bad one, but at least there was some REM sleep and my brain is processing things again.

    The point is that I suspect you have things your mind is stuck on. You probably need to work out what they are and how to resolve them or make peace with them. There are probably some themes, as others have mentioned.

    Try to get another opinion. Write down your dreams, whatever you can remember. There may be patterns, assuming it is not the same dream every night.

  • in reply to Stuart333

    I would advise against using A.I for psychological or any other type of medical help as A.I. is presenting you with information it has found online which may or may not be correct - I've stopped using Google as I often search for detailed technical information and the A.I. results are sometimes complete garbage and are clearly  based on information that it has picked up from the internet equivalent of some bloke at the pub.  The phrase garbage in, garbage out definitely applies to A.I.

    edit: I would not include A.I. systems designed and approved for medical or psychological use in what I have said above.

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  • in reply to Stuart333

    I would advise against using A.I for psychological or any other type of medical help as A.I. is presenting you with information it has found online which may or may not be correct - I've stopped using Google as I often search for detailed technical information and the A.I. results are sometimes complete garbage and are clearly  based on information that it has picked up from the internet equivalent of some bloke at the pub.  The phrase garbage in, garbage out definitely applies to A.I.

    edit: I would not include A.I. systems designed and approved for medical or psychological use in what I have said above.

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