Nightmares Begone! The Power of Imagery Rehearsal Therapy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Imagery Rehearsal Therapy has been helping banish nightmares for thirty years. But despite being easy, quick, effective, cheap, and often fun, many people don't know about it. Whether your nightmares are connected with PTSD or not, in twenty minutes you can learn to get rid them, with IRT!
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I was a VA therapist and now in private practice, also former navy combat medic. Prazosin for me caused my BP to drop and when i was showering i passed out. With that being sad it worked and has worked for many of my clients. Never had a negative reactions personally or for a client with IRT. Lucid dreaming and IRT were critial for me related to nightmares and sleep paralysis.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🌙 *Understanding Dreams and Nightmares*
- Dreams are a mysterious part of sleep, occurring mainly during REM sleep.
- The purpose of dreaming is still debated, but it involves emotional reprocessing and memory integration.
06:40 🧠 *Nightmares and Their Impact*
- Nightmares are common and can be associated with conditions like PTSD.
- Recurrent nightmares can disrupt sleep and have a significant impact on daytime well-being.
08:29 💊 *Treatment Options for Nightmares*
- Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) is recommended as a primary treatment for nightmares, especially in cases of PTSD.
- Some alternatives like Prazosin exist but may not be as consistently effective as IRT.
11:04 🌌 *Understanding Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT)*
- IRT involves changing the ending of recurrent nightmares to eliminate negative emotions.
- It empowers individuals to take control of their dreams and rehearse positive outcomes.
15:55 🔄 *Practicing Imagery Rehearsal Therapy*
- Practicing IRT involves revisiting the nightmare's storyline and changing it to have a positive ending.
- Consistent rehearsal can help reduce the frequency and intensity of nightmares.
18:27 🔊 *Reinforcing IRT with Conditioning*
- Pairing positive endings with conditioned stimuli during wakefulness can enhance the effectiveness of IRT.
- Subliminal reminders during REM sleep can accelerate the learning process and reduce nightmares.
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So good!
Thank you! Feel free to share with others.
I have CPTSD, I've been waking up throughout the night for decades. I would guess that I'm reliving the traumas every night from childhood and adulthood . It has gotten much worse and now I'm getting up every hour. I do not see any dreams but they must be occurring and I don't know what they are about. I don't wake up with any particular emotion but I would guess it is some anxiety. I did what you said, I wrote out a new dream scenario of me lying on a beach, reading it before going to sleep. I did this for several nights but nothing has changed. I'm still getting up every hour. Please can somebody kindly advise me?...Thank you
Hi Dr. Kruse!
I'm a student at Penn State. Thank you for this information, this video helped me with my research paper on IRT and Imagery Rescripting (ImRs).
I'm curious to know about your perspective on transcendental meditation for individuals with ADHD. Do you ever use it within your practice?
I've had a number of patients who felt that various meditation practices helped their ADHD symptoms, but I don't believe any of them were actually doing TM.
Hi Dr. Kruse! Do you know if this nightmare treatment has been proven to be helpful for people having nightmares related to living in a war zone? And having war-related dreams in their sleeping life that is mirroring what’s happening in their waking life?
This technique was developed for US veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, who had witnessed and participated in horrific activities. So it should also be effective for citizens who have or are living in war zones.
But one of the biggest challenges in using this technique with this group is separating the dream from reality. Your dream is your own little movie. You are allowed to change it, and make it fanciful, and positive, even if it had its origins in absolutely terrible reality. Even if changing it makes it "untrue". The purpose of a dream isn't to recreate reality, it is to help you process it and deal with life events. And if you keep having a dream over and over your brain is failing at that task. I have worked with many people who insisted they couldn't work on changing their dream because it was "true".
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, Dr. Kruse! I've passed this info along and so thankful you're putting out great information that could help people potentially decrease their suffering!! In so much appreciation of you and your work :) .
Sir i am very depressed and fear of getting dementia this is my last message if you reply i will be so glad you are the only hope that answer my question what is the odd of getting mci based on this analysis (Twelve studies met our inclusion criteria for this meta-analysis. All subjects were without dementia or MCI at baseline. Four, two, five, and four studies compared the incidence of AD, VD, any dementia, and MCI between subjects with or without depression, respectively. After pooling all the studies, subjects with depression had higher incidence of AD (relative risk (RR):1.66, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.29-2.14), VD (RR: 1.89, 95% CI: 1.19-3.01), any dementia (RR: 1.55, 95% CI: 1.31-2.83), and MCI (RR: 1.97, 95% CI: 1.53-2.54) than those without depression. )Can you explain this and tell me the absolute risk of getting MCI or dementia from depression i will be so glad please sir just last reply 🙏 thanks . Again if you are risk is 2 % after age 65 what are the odds of dementia and mci with depression?
If the general population risk is 2%, then even if the relative risk is 1.66 or 1.55 that means your absolute risk is only about 3% ( a little more than one and a half times the general population rate). So even with a fairly robust increase in relative risk, your absolute risk is pretty small. I hope that you have found someone who can help with the depression. If you are not already working with someone, your general practitioner may be a good place to start. There are also patient oriented groups like NAMI that can help, and have resources online.
@dr.johnkruse6708 thanks so much sir for your patience and answering my question .
i need to speak with you in the coming week. uggggggggggggggh yikes. please don't see me as some nothing.
I haven't been taking any new patients for more than a year, and that is unlikely to change. I can answer general questions here or during the Q and A. And I may be able to address more private topics via email at www.drjohnkruse.com/