Nightmares sudden in adult

[acuteanxiety]

Hi I've started to have sudden nightmares I wrote a really in depth post and I swiped and lost it

I've recently had a huge stress with my relationship with my parents is it related to this I don't know?

Is it a thing to have them a week Ina row? No caffeine except morning coffee

Nightmares are vivid so I dont think they are terrors and involve many of my defects totally related to my life with everyone I know in them.

I am seeing a perinatal psychologist next month but I haven't had a problem with them in my past other than the occasional typical falling teeth tsunami thing
Also sleep paralysis on napping so I had to use an alarm to stop the paralysis happening

These are all related to aspects of my life and my history of taking prescribed pain killers. I am beside myself. Last night I thought I was having a seizure

Anything I can do to prevent the night mare s? I can expand on them if it gives any more help I just spent twenty minutes writing a post and lost it which explained more about my relationship with my parents who are perfectionist and me who is not

My marriage and home life is stable we have no social service input no police no school no nothing so not a welfare issue and my relationship with my husband is better then ever

He wakes me when he knows I'm having a nightmare but I am now at the point of not wanting to go to sleep

I have had night mares every single night since I returned home from holiday and I am beside myself

Sorry just bumping myself for bed time advice

I'm really no expert but I'd say it's a reaction to your bodies subconscious, dealing with some last hurt or trauma I'd imagine.

I'm only saying this because my mum all of a sudden got severe anxiety and with it night terrors. She saw a psychotherapist who said it was all the past trauma coming out.

Could peri-menopause be at play?

Also no expert, but I’m not sure waking you in the middle is the best approach. Maybe it’s something you need to work through?

I've got to work through it for sure I am 30 (last week) so I'm not sure peri is part of it

I have so much trauma from my childhood I'm not blaming my parents I just know I'm hurt. I'm extremely sensitive. I was going to name change I used to use cultkid I'm very sensitive no doubt but also my mum and dad were working a lot

Now as an adult I feel like I underwhelm them in many ways although I'm perceived as highly accomplished my most others. I'm still not blaming them for my feelings but also I know I'm defensive of them

I just worry because last night I thought I had a fit in my dream and I have now told my husband if I tell him I've had a fit even if I am asleep I want him to ring 999 because I have just seen a journal which links sudden onset of nightmares to epilepsy.

I'm that kind of person where the Tummy ache is a ruptured cyst with a big internal bleed, the sore throat although no tonsils turns into IV anti biotics, feeling a bit underweather turns out to be sepsis... so I'm paranoid like my name suggests

I've had an extremely extremely stressful two weeks with my parents who I didn't see for two years due to covid and then say I see them ordinarily maybe 3 times a year so I know I'm very upset by what happened when I was away but I'm just bamboozled by the nightmares because the most difficult things in my life incl sepsis relationship problems financial struggles and premature babies still didn't cause this to occur

I keep telling myself it won't happen tonight

Honestly honestly because I want the best tips and advice I am telling the truth that my relationship my children my home life and my finances are the best they have ever been yet my nightmares are the most extraordinarily traumatising

Lost children
Accused of drug addiction
Rotten teeth and told no fillings as drug addict
Taken away by parents with suitcase packed as if I wasn't on pain killers (I'm currently not) then it wouldn't result in withdrawal
FIL being stabbed
Children speaking another language to my parents and my children don't understand me and I don't understand them
Dying from a fit ( I wonder if it was sleep paralysis)

I'm telling myself I'll be ok but what the hell is going on? 😞😞