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Can my nightmares/night terrors be triggered by...

my son living on the streets and getting involved in possibly dealing drugs? I'm worried he's not just doing the drugs, but dealing now too, but I'm not 100% positive. I haven't been able to sleep well in a very long time, but lately it seems like its become more strenuous and strained whenever he's around. That is my sleep patterns do anyways. He has always been a social butterfly of sorts, but since he was diagnosed with ADHD and ODD with anxiety disorder he's been in and out of behavioral hospitals, juvenile hall jail and adult jail a few times, once for driving while intoxicated, but he doesn't drink, so I'm sure its drugs he was on. Since turning 18, he's been sleeping in his car, even during the winter months and it gets really cold here in the middle of winter, like -30f sometimes.
That makes my anxiety skyrocket when I know he's sleeping in his car cause he'll run the vehicle out of gas sometimes just to stay warm instead of coming to our house to sleep and stay warm. He doesn't like sleeping here more then half the time anyways he says. So, I'm just wondering if that worry can trigger PTSD symptoms? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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I'm alive, I'm sleeping like a rock, and for some reason I wanted cherry juice so that seems to be helping. (??? Weirdo that I am.)***Infamous therapies over history:1. The Attic. The madwoman in the attic is a motif in literature going waaaaaay back: the nutty female relative is locked in the attic. (See: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte for a grotesquely racist version of it, and Charlotte Perkins...
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...


So sorry you are going through similar. Gentlest of support and empathy, RH. Share freely. Share often.
Hope you find lots of healing companionship here. Live support groups can be helpful, as well. Sometimes a body needs a flesh and blood shoulder to lean on.