How to Deal with PTSD Nightmares

Medical 🌱 helps me with all of my ptsd symptoms the best, including night terrors/nightmares. Not sure if that is an option where you live though. I’m also on quetiapine and clonodine, and those help a little but not as much as the 🌱

I sleep with my dog in the bed, or a with stuffed animal, they give me something to focus on when I wake up and they help me fall back asleep:)

When my PTSD was at an all time high my psychiatrist prescribed me trazodone to help with sleep, on top of that I’ve been doing EMDR in therapy and it works really well for me!

I talk it out even if it's the middle of the night I find someone to talk to. Helps me feel calmer.

+1 to EMDR! It’s the only thing that has genuinely started to help. Meds just dull things out for me but don’t actually address the core of the issue. The nightmares aren’t totally gone, but they’ve significantly reduced in just 5 months of EMDR therapy.

I cry myself to sleep every night

Grounding techniques. The waking terrors are rather bad sometimes. I just did my best to ground myself over time they have lessened on frequency, but not in potency. It's just a bit easier to deal with the aftermath of them now.

I take prazosin just started and i still wake up in the middle of the night

I have coping skills I have to work with. I'm on Seroquel and buspar for my anxiety and night terrors and they don't really stop anything, but waking up and doing a painting with some coffee or tea in the morning recenters and makes my day a little better

Yes. Some of my PTSD is from a horrible relationship with a cheating narcissist. Sometimes in my dreams I'm friends with the other women. It's so infuriating when I wake up. It's like I feel betrayed by myself in my dreams. And other dreams involving other aspects of my PTSD it's crazy terrifying and I wake up hysterical and it hurts me to the bones.

I take Prazosin and Saphris for the nightmares and they work wonders. EMDR therapy helps a lot, too.

Medication.. I'm on prasozin. It's pretty amazing how they have medication that control your dreams.