Hi Paula just wondering if you could get some meds from your doctor to help you sleep better. I am on mirtazapine and chlorpromazine and they knock me right out at night, flashbacks or not. Hope this helps Manda x

I stuggle with the same thing. I found that one thing helps if I do actually sleep in my bed and also it was said here wear your clothes to bed.

I am getting the remembers back of sexual childhood abuse by familu and a lot of others. I sleep a lot in chairs even car sometimes, my problem is fear of nightmares, but it is still the same lack of control that being asleep brings.

when that happens to me, I sleep where im more relaxed. I cant say for the others but besides sleeping pills or getting drunk is all that has helped....but that's me, never never give up, if I do, my life will be over. be stronger! take away his power over you.

Thanx everyone I tried sleeping pills before but they stopped them. I spoke to my mental health nurse again today and said she gonna try and get some more pills for me.the only place I can sleep is on the sofa I feel safe there! Thanx Lilly I will check that out. And warpig your right I need to be stronger, I'm just used to staying awake all night waiting for my family to go to sleep so I can go down stairs to him :(

I let myself wander during the night and sleep in different places when I am feeling insecure. I read once in a Biology book that animals will often move from place to place throughout the night and sleep in different places from one night to the next. My dog certainly does, but maybe it is just when she feels my need. It doesn't allow for the textbook 8 hour regimen, but I do find it oddly soothing...

Have you tried EMDR?

http://www.emdr.com/general-information/what-is-emdr/history-of-emdr.html

oops. prob'ly should have posted this link instead:

http://www.emdr.com/general-information/what-is-emdr.html

hmmm. looks like a DS glitch, instead of my own ... trying again


"http://www.emdr.com/general-information/what-is-emdr.html"

that is www.emdr.com and you can find more infor there. Sorry about the snafu.

I have issues sleeping related to a variety of causes, but when it's pTSD, it's usually that I'm scared--- my bedroom was not safe for me as a kid b/c my older sister could trap me in it. And most of th eyear, escaping out the window wasn't an option due to the weather. So.... I use a nightlight and always keep the door to both hallway and master bathroom open so I can feel like I have two ways to run out of the room. When we haven't had that option in previous homes? It was harder to sleep without the sense of a "spare exit"....

Maybe try sleeping in bed and setting an alarm so that after a few hours in bed sleeping, you go to couch? Or vice versa? And increase time in bed gratdually so you come to feel safer there?

Just an idea.

Healing hopes for good rest for you.

Hi everyone thanx for your replays,I'm currently waiting for therapy and that emdr and visited the doctor today and she gave some zopliclone :)

When I posted here about that and how I was going through it, too, I found out here about melatonin 10 mg over the counter at any drugstore. It really helped me without being as harsh on me as prescription sleeping pills, which make me dull and drowsy all day.

Hi I'm know on sleeping tablets to help me sleep. Had a good night sleep, for the first time in a while! Thanx for all your replies I'm so happy that I have a lot support :) and for everyone's kind words it really means a lot :)

Ah-h-h... The difference a good night's sleep can make!!!!

Thanks for the update, paula.

All my worries and bad memories, insecurity, abuse, etc. seem to hit me when I go to bed at night. I try to take my medication about 8 PM so that when I go to bed I'll already be relaxed. Eating at bedtime will knock me out, but I can't indulge much because of weight issues.

Wishing you well and that your doctor can keep prescribing the meds that help you!