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Nightmares

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I thought I read something on the BP community sometime back indicating that a lot of people with the disorder suffer from nightmares. Does anyone know if this is correct?

My daughter had a very graphic nightmare last night and has not been able to stop thinking about it. She has been feeling bad all day and I am trying to figure out if this is just a one time thing (she hasn't had a problem with nightmares before) or if it could be just one more symptom of her recent problems.
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I duno have no clue..

Take a lil step and get a dream catcher! It worked for my kids every time =}
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the worst dream i ever had which was soo real was wheree i was a new kid at a school and a kid was showin me around and he pulls a gun out and kills me when i woke up i was sweatin and soo scared
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When my boyfriend was becoming unwell he had dreams every night of armageddon. They were so vivid & would haunt him for the rest of the day at work. He dreaded going to sleep at night.

As he got more unwell he experienced psychosis & told me that he was basically the modern day jesus that the bible had predicted would come. From the dreams he believed he knew how the world would end & was sure that he was here to prevent it from happening & make the world a better place.
He was so insistent that I started to actually question it, that maybe he was the new jesus!
I found some info on a site & realised that it was the psychosis talking & we headed off to the hospital.
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if it continues talk to the pdoc about it, there are drugs that can be given for nightmares.
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Sometimes different med can cause pshycotic dreams. when I first went on effexor I had a psychotic dream i wont even discuss, It was so horrible. And it happened very soon after I started it. Went off the effexor and no more dreams.

Definatly talk to the pdoc.
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i hardly evenhave dreams anymore which sucks
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My bf has really vivid terrible dreams every now and then. When he was doing really bad he experienced psychosis as well, and its so weird that kfred mentioned that her bf said he was the modern day Jesus because that kind of what mine said to, he would also said he could guide himself with his hands, communicate with squirrelsother really weird stuff that I cant remember, but he has been on his meds now for almost a year (yeay!!!) and he doesnt experience that as much anymore, but he does have really bad dreams every now and again.
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