Idk

I think it’s your brain’s way of working through ****.

Woke up screaming like a madman hundreds of times. You can smooth it out with drugs but you still gotta pay the piper. I mean if you can put the pain off until you die that’s a win but if you live long enough it’s just going to keep resurfacing no matter what you take. They’ll be like switch you to this switch you to that up this drop this on and on and never once take a look at the actual brain to see what the **** is going on.

You realize you're the WW1 battlefield of "working through ****" right?

We can change the name from shell shocked to PTSD but Gulf War era veterans still blow their own brains out at an alarming “clip”

Cheap pun intended

So uh where was the improvement, exactly?

I'm saying that whatever non-medicated way you're dealing with PTSD has not worked. You are a bag of angry cats.

That greedy piper gets enough payout from the events that cause PTSD.

I hear you. Point taken. In my defense, I’ve tried their medicines though and I’m finally getting to see a real psychiatrist. I haven’t given up. And I qualified it by calling my opinion “non-professional”

Plus I even started with

But I get you... why would anyone take swimming lessons from a drowning man.

I’m on the theory that your brain has to work it out and ****ed up dreams is part of that but it’s probably only as valid as I consider jwb’s evolutionary psychology theory on human height is. Just something I’m pulling out of my ass. It’s just as likely that the dreams don’t do anything but retraumatize people

I wouldnt I know. I don’t know **** about it except I’m sick of being crazy

He’s an overpaid goddamn piper for real son

The medication Luce is referring to is the same nightmare medicine that I am on - there is no psych med that is going to stop you dreaming altogether, the meds just help control the adrenal responses so that you are able to get quality sleep. With mental health the first things they [should] address is your sleep, your diet, and your exercise habits - because those areas are the most detrimental to cognitive function.

Have they heard of Twitter?

That makes sense. Not sleeping is brutal. Diet and exercise is hard to straighten out when you’re mind is trippy and then it snowballs. But when you mention diet and exercise to people with mental disorders you usually just get the middle finger and a you don’t understand. But yeah I’m with you. I feel like a lot of drugs suppress my dreams but I don’t know about “altogether”. I also have my doubts about the quality of medicated sleep but it definitely beats no sleep and I’ve done that too ramble ramble Ramones.