Have experienced similar issues with nightmares. They started as a child. At times, I definitely feel more angry with the nightmares caused by the trauma than the trauma itself. A few folks here suggested prazosin for the nightmares. I take the lowest dose and it has helped a ton. It is cheap and non-addictive which was important too. Reclaiming peace in sleep has been good. Sending hugs!

Hopeful, I think most of us have those reliving the traumas once asleep. I look at it as the brain just doing its thing when we are not fully conscious. It is a bummer. Healing and calming hugs.

Hi Hopeful. Yeah, I too relate. I sometimes sedate myself so that I don’t have them, or at least don’t remember having them, but when they were really bad, I went on Prazosin and that helped for a while.
Triple hugs of support, and writing it out is a good outlet for me, actually writing out the details of the nightmares seems to purge them some times.

I second the prazosin. It works wonders. Left untreated your nightmares could lead to insomnia....you'll be afraid or reluctant to want to sleep. You don't want to add that problem to everything else. Another thing that helped me was to rewrite my nightmares so that I was the heroine or that they were funny instead of scary. Reread before you go to bed. I know it sounds crazy but it helps. There's quite a bit of new research to support this. Good luck to you.

Prazosin has worked for me for 2 years now. It's freed me from my cycle of nightmares & insomnia, so I second it, too.

I am sorry you are going thru this, im currently in the middle of reliving the worst week of my life. I still have two days to go and the nightmares are horrible, Im waking up crying and yelling.