Welcome april, so sorry for what you have gone through. Have you tried finding a therapist to help you? You are not alone, there are many understanding people here. If it helps you to vent and let out your emotions this is a good place, whenever you feel like you want too. Support and Hugs!

the best thing to do is to say that's the past and this is now and I'm okay now and it's not happening right now and I hope you found ways to protect yourself from it from happening again did you reach out to some friends and family or a therapist I'm hoping you do that because they need to know so they can help and protect you from any more trauma from happening to you! There is also medication for PTSD Hope this helps I suffer from PTSD too from a fire I had in the past and my pet died when I was like 7 or something after the fire. very traumatic to a 7 year old to see a fire happen by waking up and being pulled out of the house then seeing the smoke and seeing the cat meowing in pain and dying in my parents arms! My mom and I said to the cat it will be okay you'll be okay then we took are cats to the vet then they said pumpkin had passed because we couldn't save her I feel so much guilt and pain from this now because I told her she'll be okay when she just passed. very stressing! I feel you! PTSD is awful especially with flashbacks and nightmares!

So sorry for what you've going through. You're not alone. I've got PTSD from all 3 major trauma categories--sexual assault, domestic childhood violence, and combat. A therapist who was a PTSD specialist helped me much, much, much more than a regular therapist did. And as a medication for nightmares, the new one since 2014 is Prazosin, and it's worked wonders for me since this past July.

Hi, April. Welcome to the forum.

I sure wish I had a magic hot link I could paste in here to give you all the healing mojo each and every one of us needs to wake up tomorrow as Perfect Normies. Sorta. . . On another level, I sure would miss the unique qualities members of my healing network develop BECAUSE of the challenges of their healing journeys. A world full of Perfect Normies sounds kind of boring to me now that I have learned to love the fully unique qualities of each of my peer supporters.

I don't know what we can do to help with your own unique case, but I look forward to the possibility of finding out. The healing of one is the healing of us all.

Welcome aboard. Hope you find healing companionship here.

you are not alone

Thanks everyone n I do see a thrpist am on meds

I'd see a psychiatrist and ask for the Prazosin that Muji mentioned. It's done wonders for the nightmare issue. Other than that continue with the therapist, hopefully they specialize in trauma/PTSD. That makes a big difference. Discover ways to self soothe. Talk to your therapist about grounding skills. You have to dig down really deep and learn about you. It's hard work but worth it. Lots of support and hugs.

I'm sorry you are going through all that, you did the right thing by reaching out. Do you have a support system within your friends and family? Finding those few people you can trust and talk to, who care about you, will help.
I see above that you are seeing a therapist, since you are already on meds yet you're still having nightmares have you thought about talking to your therapist about changing your medication? It could be that the medication just isn't working for you, especially if you're still having nightmares.
Keep posting here. The more open you are, the more everyone can help you:)

Thanks n I do see therapist I'm growing n I finally got rest last nighr

That's great!! do you remember what you were thinking last night, anything in particular that helped you get a good night's rest?

Took med cleaned up cooked dinner watched movie felt better talked on here