Covid sleep stress - 5 YO constant nightmares

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My youngest is coping badly with all this. Up until lock down she not had any sleep issues for three years. Now it is constant repetitive nightmares about being chased by a huge virus trying to inject her. She wakes up terrified and then is so pumped up she can't get back to sleep. We have had ten weeks of loosing sleep every night and of course the medics answer is just a phase she will grow out of....before she is ten !!!!!!!! Really getting quite desperate now so any thoughts really appreciated. Thanks

you just have to wait. It's age

Can't just wait for another five years. I was told by a mid wife that Image Rehearsal Therapy is the NHS's treatment of choice if you can get a GP to refer you. BUT also that it can be done at home..this is the link she sent me....sounds almost too good to be true....anyone ever tried this? www.sleepmastereurope.com/good-dreams-comp

Whyyyyyyyy had I never heard of Image Rehersal Therapy before???Had to tell you about this....two weeks ago I bought a Dream Pillow (they call the style Lamby....looks nothing like a lamb ...close to a dog or rabbit). No matter my girl bonded with it immediately and wanted to go to bed early (this ONLY happens on Christmas Eve. The have a couple of pages detailing the vairious types of night time probles and the solutions. They say it takes at least ten days to work....and it did....but three days ago the nightmares stopped and now she has had plesant dreams (or none at all one night). Early days yet but I was at my wits end with the nightmares.