Nightmares most nights

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I had a ‘challenging’ upbringing with complex trauma. Mix of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

I quite often find I suddenly remember stuff and end up panicky or in tears. I’ve had a lot of therapy, DBT and CBT mainly and I function well day to day (although still have ongoing difficulties) but night time is horrendous.

I have nightmares pretty much every night, wake up sweaty with a headache. Very vivid dreams that I can still recall the next day.

I had night terrors as a child, and apnoeic episodes - I still think I have sleep apnoea now, sometimes wake up coughing a bit.

I’m on anti depressants but I don’t think I’m getting a good sleep because of this, I’m starting to not want to go to bed because I know I’m in for another night of it!

Is there any self care I could do, or anything I should ask my GP for?

Following with interest as I'm in the same boat as you OP. I am diagnosed with PTSD and a number of other mental health problems. I have very frequent nightmares, wake up sweating, can remember absolutely everything about the dreams as so covid and realistic. Strangely enough my PTSD was caused by one single event and the nightmares are only occasionally about the event itself, majority of them are about other things.