Trauma and Nightmares

Trauma and Nightmares

Following a traumatic event people can experience nightmares within a few days or even the next day. Nightmares can be very vivid and interfere with the quality and quantity of rest a person is getting. This can affect the brain; the brain needs good and enough sleep to rest, to heal and to cope with a traumatic event. It is important to be able to deal with this because if the nightmares continue for more than a month and there are other symptoms then we can be dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This article offers some advice on how you can work through nightmares.        

For the full article: http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/when-trauma-follows-you-into-your-nightmares-0708144

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