How can I make the nightmares stop?!

Question: How can I make the nightmares stop?

When I was five I was stabbed multiple times by my mother's boyfriend. less than a year later I was adopted by my dad who is the most wonderful father and has made my life worth living. I'm 13 now and about 3 times a week I still have nightmares about the stabbing, I wasn't just stabbed I was torchured for days by him before he shot himself in front of me.

Sometimes I think that if I went back to the place where it happened and see that he's not there it will help. Is that dumb? I've been in thereapy for years but I still have those dreams and I have to relive it all the time.

Do you have any sugjestions?

Answers:

well i also have PTSD from trauma in my past. i had terrible nightmares.

so before bed i write all my thoughts in a journal. good thoughts, bad thoughts, etc. I write everything on my mind. Everything im worried about. i even write, "please God, no bad dreams tonight".

it worked. my nightmares stopped. it was like the journal was a dream catcher. you see?

try journaling. it really helps! good luck

Before you go to bed try to relax don't watch any horror films or anything like that. Maybe it is that you need closure, but i would speak to your therapist and make sure that it would be ok to visit the place where it happend. Relax yourself before you go to sleep and tell yourself that it is only a dream it isn't like it's real. You'll be ok. Focus on happier things before going to bed and throughout the day.

Myself, and past.

Pray, pray to God. Pray like ur life depends on it. It's pretty much the only answer.

time heals all

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