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Monday, April 30, 2012

Nightmares and Bad Dreams in Grief

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A reader writes:  It's now been six months since my mother died. In many ways it seems like worlds and eons since then, but in some ways not at all. I really miss her and talking to her every few days, as was our old routine.  The problem I’m having is that I dream about her almost every night.  It's never the same scenario, except that she's always sick, like she was toward the end. Sometimes I wake up crying. This has been going on for pretty much the entire time since she died. Is this normal???  I think of her from time to time during the day, but not obsessively so. I'm able to function pretty well. So I'm wondering if this is normal and how much other people have a similar experience.

2 comments:

  1. Lots of great suggestions. I used to have those types of dreams too. I never got treatment, but they went away as I actively worked through my grief.

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  2. Hello, Lizzy how are you doing i want you to know that i was also having this same problem until i come across with some one who help me

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