Nightmares/vivid dreams after quitting
Hi and thanks for all the support. I have enrolled in a stress reduction course, but the building creaks in the wind, the guy next to me was jiggling his leg so the floor shook, and there were a lot of outside bangs and rumbles. So it was more like a stress 'enhancement' evening for me!
My therapist does the somatic stuff, and although I find it a bit confronting (much more comfortable with cerebral things), it actually does seem to help to ground me and bring me back to earth whether I am wound up and panicky or at the other end of the scale, that really disconnected, withdrawn, slow state. We talked about the drinking and how I had been using it as another way to dissociate, and how the more I do that, the less things get properly processed, and so they pop through in dreams, when I relax/am off guard, triggered by a reminder, and how I don't learn to deal with the scary thoughts/images/feelings so they get bigger and scarier. Another really good reason to stick with the non drinking
Hi and thanks for all the support. I have enrolled in a stress reduction course, but the building creaks in the wind, the guy next to me was jiggling his leg so the floor shook, and there were a lot of outside bangs and rumbles. So it was more like a stress 'enhancement' evening for me!
My therapist does the somatic stuff, and although I find it a bit confronting (much more comfortable with cerebral things), it actually does seem to help to ground me and bring me back to earth whether I am wound up and panicky or at the other end of the scale, that really disconnected, withdrawn, slow state. We talked about the drinking and how I had been using it as another way to dissociate, and how the more I do that, the less things get properly processed, and so they pop through in dreams, when I relax/am off guard, triggered by a reminder, and how I don't learn to deal with the scary thoughts/images/feelings so they get bigger and scarier. Another really good reason to stick with the non drinking
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