Comments on: Maybe I am just hard wired for depression and anxiety

By: Treating Your Anxiety | Give Up too Fast!

Treating Your Anxiety | Give Up too Fast! — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:17:00 +0000

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By: Dawn Pugh

Dawn Pugh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:37:09 +0000

Hi Christine,
Firstly let me thank you for sharing yourself with us all.
I wanted to say I work therapeutically with dreams quite a lot but I do not intend to offer you any interpretation.

What I would like to say is that your subconscious is your friend and that it will not present anything that it doesn’t think we cannot deal with.

The simple fact that your dreams are re-current can mean that you are not implementing new learning’s but yet repeating old patterns.

I hope this is useful?

Thank you
Regards
Dawn Pugh

By: PsychCentral

PsychCentral — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:22:30 +0000

Depression Blog: Maybe I am just hard wired for depression and anxiety http://bit.ly/W7gSq

By: Cindy Nelson

Cindy Nelson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:24:36 +0000

RT @psychcentral Depression Blog: Maybe I am just hard wired for depression and anxiety http://bit.ly/W7gSq

By: Carter

Carter — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:10:29 +0000

Probably a long shot, but I don’t suppose you’ve been swearing, shouting, acting out during these dreams? I have (during really, really vivid dreams, usually of fistfights, etc.), & apparently research over the past couple years has established the disorder (REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD) can be caused or triggered by antidepressant use, esp. in people who don’t fit the typical profile (which is men in their 50s or 60s).

And there are certainly other diagnosible sleep disorders that can go along with unpleasantly vivid dreams. Just went through a sleep study last night; got a sleep apnea dx, but I slept poorly & they didn’t get enough data to dx or rule out RBD.

Good luck! Bad sleep sucks much worse than most easy-sleepers realize, I think.