Not good.
The last few days, I haven’t felt particularly anxious during the day. In fact, I’ve been having a perfectly nice week. But I started having horrible nightmares. Disaster after disaster overtakes me in my sleep. People shoot at me with guns. Savage animals attack me. Family members make me cry. Snowstorms erupt. I am lost, afraid, alone. Cell phones don’t work or people don’t answer. In all these dreams, I feel helpless.
I’ve tried the medicines the doctor gave me — Xanax and Ambien. Xanax makes me feel calm before falling asleep, but it doesn’t keep me from having nightmares. Ambien doesn’t make me calmer, but it knocks me out so I don’t keep waking up from my nightmares. But both are getting less effective. I am careful not to use them every day, but it seems my body is getting used to them, anyway.
Last night, my Dom pinned me down and had sex with me and called me names and talked dirty to me. He choked me at the end. I hated/loved it. Ahhh, the complexities of BDSM.