Can my depression be causing my nightmares? if so can i stop them?

Question

my fiance left three weeks ago .( he is in the navy) he will be going to iraq sometime soon... and ever since he has been gone i have had terriable nightmares about him... none of which most people have like him being killed or anything.. but mainly of him cheating on me or leaving me. I know im depressed and all but could that be causing my nightmares.. or is it because its my worst fear? im not tottaly sure.. help plz

Answer 1

I think you're scared of him breaking up with you. If you were to focus your attention on the good times you've had with him and the signals he's given you that tell you he wants to be with you, you wouldn't be so anxious. You're probably thinking all the time on the opposite: signs he may not want to be with you. If that's so, it's no surprise you're so worried. Worrying about what will happen will not help you prepare for anything, it's absolutely useless, it only makes you paranoid. Stop thinking about what may go wrong, keep in mind the good things and regain control of your mind. He's probably never going to do the things you're worried about. In a phrase: don't think about the bad things (yes, it does work, for you situation).

Answer 2

Actually I'm sure it's a little bit of both. Not many people have dreams that actually come true. I'm sure your not having dreams because he is cheating on you. Your probably just scared that he might and of course you have all rights to be depressed when he's gone. I myself suffer from depression and I take medication for it. I find when I havent been takeing my medication regularly that I have more bad dreams then usual. Dreams about my children getting hurt or my husband cheating on me, things like that.
My husband used to be in the military and right after we'd gotten married we moved away from my family and everything got so difficult for me to deal with that I was seriously stressed out all the time and when something else major came along to stress me out something would happen to me. I rememeber one time he came home from work and told me he was leaving for iraq in a week or so and the next morning I woke up and my entire back was a mess!! I had a reash all over my back!! I went to the doctor. From the time I woke up and actually saw the doctor it had been about 2 hours. In that 2 hours my rash had disappeared. The doctor said it was from the stress I'd been going through. So if my body can do things like that when I'm stressed out and depressed there's no question in my mind, that your mind can play tricks on you under the same situation.

Answer 3

I had terrible nightmares while i became into taking antidepressants. additionally undesirable night sweats. the two are person-friendly section effects. you do no longer point out how long you have been taking the medicine or no remember if it is assisting you melancholy. The nightmares would shrink in intensity and/or frequency. in case you have in basic terms all started on the med, supply it some greater weeks to work out if the indications flow away and to work out how your melancholy responds. in case you have given the medicine a competent trial, oftentimes 2-3 weeks, and the nightmares are nonetheless undesirable sufficient which you do no longer want to flow to sleep, communicate consisting of your prescribing scientific professional. you may call the workplace and ask to talk with the scientific professional's nurse. clarify what the priority is and ask in the event that they'd swap you to a minimum of something diverse. The scientific professional could see you quite of going this over the telephone. all of the fashionable antidepressants are comparable and would reason comparable section effects, yet you may have the means to discover one that works greater effective for you. Take care.

Answer 4

your nightmares are sometimes results of your feelings which are repressed or denied. your ego personality is obviously trying to protect you from your worse fears and trying to make you deviate from the reality and comeback to you gradually in some way it wont be too harmfull. My psychology teacher said that sometimes if you deal with some threatning infos all at once you could faint or have some kind of mental break down. So I'd say the best way to deal with your nightmares is to deal with your emotions about him leaving. Be positive and actually believe that it'll be okay. Have not one ounce of doubt, cause as you know, your mind will pick that up and you could somehow dream of some iraquian holding a gum to your husbands head and telling you that you're stupid to believe that he would be safe at all. so be positive and if you are a religious person pray and believe!
AND... dreams could come when you are thinking too much of the issue, think of something else if you cant stay positive. something funny or something that kind of brings euphoria, anything that has no ounce of threat...
i hope i helped

Answer 5

In my opinion, yes, your depression can cause nightmares. I believe that dreams are your subconscious thoughts throughout the day replaying through your head while you sleep. In my experiences I've noticed that bad dreams occur a lot more often when I'm really stressed out or depressed then when I'm happy and carefree. You have to stop thinking about your own fears and start thinking about when he gets home and is holding you in his arms.

Answer 6

Disturbing dreams that occur during REM sleep or Dreaming is a mental experience that occurs during bizarre happenings without question.
Dreams are repressed desires and provide access to the unconscious in symbolic form.
Drugs on the other hand, alters one's state of consciousness. Psychoactive drugs are chemicals substances that influence the brain, alter consciousness, and produce psychological changes.
So to answer your question yes, if you are taking any antidepressants or mind/mood altering drugs (psychiatric drugs)-
check this site to learn more about psychiatric drugs:

http://www.cchr.org

Answer 7

well depression affects your mind but i don't think you are all that depressed you're just worried he will be too busy in iraq to be cheating on you and besides if he was that kinda guy he wouldn't have proposed to you he wants to be with you and only you for the rest of his life so relax everything will be fine

Answer 8

I'd say the depression may be caused by the night-mares.
But the night-mares reveal a huge insecurity on your part.
This isn't a healthy concern about him;-{ it's all about you.
You might need some counselling to resolve this.

Answer 9

maybe u are depressed cuz ur fiance is a navy guy ie fag

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