dreams/nightmares can have this effect on us..take some very deep breaths, try to relax the body and flush the thoughts out. know that you can do this and we are here to support you.

I can get really stressed out if I have things planned that take me away from the house. Even good things. I always feel better once I get started though. I am sorry you had bad dreams.

i think you have to call the thing your surpost to do that way you dont have to leave but if this isnt an option i think that talking to someone will help you probally have to just fight your fear and do something any way is anything imporant that you have to do or can it wait but i think you will be ok

Nightmares / terrors have this kind of impact on me and several members of my family. It is a toughie! I sure wish I had a microwave solution for all of us.

When it has been me hiding behind that blanket, I have found it helps to push myself a bit. Yeah, I am scared hopeless, but... Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the facing of fear.

But, today it is not me. It is you. Can I pray you find what works for you?

i know how hard it is if you can push your self try taking a shower it always help.cffe mabe.

I'm sorry that you are feeling this way, i know how scary dreams can be, I used to have night terrors. The best thing to do is to fight the fear and make yourself do whatever it is you have to do. That is the only way I was able to overcome my fears.

There is a word for that and the closest thing I have found is from an AA reading list and for the life of me, I can't remember it at all.

I have been there and it is awful. Once my wife, while crashing from speed, ran out of the house sure that a plane was going to crash into the house. She was yelling and screaming but the neighbors were used to that from us. At least we weren't fighting.

I usually get a major fear but not so debilitating. This is a great time to take a nerve calming med like Xanax. If not I would smoke some pot if I still smoked pot. I believe this is the best time to do such a thing. But then pot also adds to paranoia so that may be a very stupid sort of advice.

thanx everyonr for your support. I'm trying to putter around the house and see if I can eventually leave

I occaisionally get the night terrors.
Try to forget the dream contents and put the content out of your mind.
I find doing something other than thinking about my anxiety helps. Simple things like watching TV or surfing the web move my mind onto something else and the anxiety subsides. Good luck.
Susan

I started having fears of things that were around me, of my body parts, etc and I asked my psychiatrist for some medicine for anxiety attacks. He gave me clomazapham and it has helped me greatly. I hope that this helps you out. I feel bad that you are in a tough spot right now.

Going through the same thing. I dreamed I went to work dirty just to get there. My hair and teeth were not brushed, didn't take a shower and had dirty clothes on. Some people talked to me like normal and others talked down and were hostile toward me. These people were not my coworkers but people from the past. My desk and cubicles were not in the normal location or layout. I don't do drugs nor have in the past but in this dream I had a pipe in my bag and tried to get rid of it at someone else's trash can mistakening it for mine.

I'm going through a situation with HR, my supervisor, FMLA, etc. that if I am still going through a medication adjustment (2-3 mos) that they will need to put me at another job because I need to meet the demand of the department I am on. In other words I'm a casualty of this mixed state and medication battle.

I know TMI. Sorry all just frustrated.

i suffer from ptsd, and on a day after a `nightmare' night, i don't leave my room. i usually can't even handle noise, so i don't even watch tv or listen to music. just absolute silence.

i'm sorry you're feeling like this today, but you're not alone. i hope you feel better soon.