Nightmares any suggestions on what to try?
Hey guys,
please excuse my English it’s not my first language and I have some trouble with grammar in general.
So I have nightmares now for 20 years, been in therapy DBT learning skills and so on.
But no one could help me with sleeping disorder and nightmares. Because of my migraine I get anti depressants to help with it which also helps me to sleep normally. Nightmares are still a huge thing on a daily basis. Because of the medication I sleep so deep that 99% of the time I don’t remember even having one. Which is great for me but doesn’t help my partner.
Some months I only growl in my sleep others like now I shake him, try to kick him out of the bed, scream at him and so on. He is very understanding but also gets cold and distant in the mornings because he didn’t sleep much or well.
I try to get into therapy again for a long time but I don’t find a place. Most don’t take patients with government health insurance or only offer DBT which I did (worked great for everything else).
I take any suggestions on what I can try to make it better.
(I don’t know if this information could be helpful but the ptbs is a result of constant trauma over years and I can’t remember most of it which makes it hard to work on it)