My Dream Journal

I didn’t sleep well at all. I was having a severe bout of OCD and was tortured by having to get up out of bed several times. I had a roommate, which added to my stress as I was terrified of bothering him. I was extremely restless and depressed all throughout the next day. The realization that I was locked up became more and more intense and I knew that there was no one for me to turn to. I had voluntarily admitted myself to the Stephens Unit, but I later found out I had an affidavit next to my name that allowed the hospital to keep me against my will until I was evaluated by a psychiatrist. I asked one of the nurses if I could be given any form of medication that would help get me through the night. She obliged, but it likely was nothing that would be completely helpful, because there was no psychiatrist there to even prescribe something for what I was going through. Nevertheless, I was somewhat hopeful that my depression and anxiety from being there would get marginally

Flashbacks of my attacks ran rapid through my mind. My physical incapacity as well as emotional disability reminded me why I wanted to find a quick fix to this issue. Tears started poking

My grandma took me to the doctors to get a check up. Grandma was worried for me, so after my check up the doctor suggested to put me on flower pills. I was dreaming within a dream, talking to myself, awake for days. When I’m awake I have a lot of dreams, when I was out, when I was home. It’s all I did. I also dreamt about things I lost, I think from an early age you have to get used to losing a lot of things because if you don’t things will get really bad for you. You have to get used to letting things go and never getting them back.

Another dream I had took place on November 19, 2013. During this dream Katherine Heigl was dying of cancer inside of an office cubicle. The cubicle was filled with files of papers and had a desktop computer on the desk. Inside he office someone bought Panda Express to eat. That night I went to sleep watching Grey’s Anatomy on Netflix. In that episode Izzy, played by Katherine Heigl, was diagnosed with cancer. The papers were prevalent in my dreams because my bed was covered in notes and other forms of paper. Also, my favorite place to eat is Panda Express and I ate that for dinner before I went to sleep. This dream is a recollection of everything I did within the past few hours of falling asleep, which fully supports the AIM model theory.

The new patient to the clinic is a 27-year-old Native American female who is a mother of two girls, ages 11 and 8 years old. The patient was referred from her primary care doctor after a routine checkup. The notes in the patients chart forward from the doctor stated that the patient is unable to sleep at night due to recurring nightmares. Which is causing the patient to be very irritable, difficultly concentrating, and having high levels of anxiety. The anxiety is causing the patient to be easily overwhelmed, always worried and feeling hopelessness. Also, the patient is noticing memory gaps which are making her have a lack of mental energy throughout the day.

For my second genre. I chose to do diary entry to show how each character felt, treated, and suffered from

The dreams were realistic, my waking life surreal; sometimes imagining Dad showing up at my door.

For the past six months, Anna had soldiered through several unnerving bouts of Sleep Paralysis. Unfortunately, those periods were becoming more frequent and growing progressively worse. Accompanying the episodes were frightening images, systematically intensifying with each passing

The writing process was also a little different and in the end, rewarding. Reminiscing my adventure from high school was almost comforting as I tried to recall details. I appreciated the fact that I can now remember this event more vividly than before. Normally, I dislike writing about myself, but I felt accomplished after I saw the upbeat reactions of the audience after they read the story.

A nightmare in particular is an event that typically occurs during the rapid eye movement stage (REM) of sleep. Researchers and psychologist (Lance & Schrijnemaekers, 2013; Barlow & Durand, 2012; Levin & Nielsen, 2009) distinguish nightmares as an event that awakens person, whereas “bad dream” does not. One of the prominent features that is most notable in nightmares is that they can induce anxiety, fear, as well as distress within an individual who experiences them (Nightmares, 2010). At what point, however, does a nightmare turn into a disorder and what should psychologists do to treat it? When diagnosing nightmares as a disorder, it is important to have an understanding of the DSM V criteria, the latest research; such as the percentage of people who are effected, the risk factors, the varies causes and comorbidities, as well as looking at the most effective treatment plans. (transitional sentence)

This story was written to resemble entries in a diary, and that was an amazing decision

Creating dreams to overcome the stress of the daily bases is something really common, is a way of trying to stay positive

I had actually mastered the art of being in sleep paralysis and if you don't know what that is you dont have it probably then and if you don't i would pray to God every night thanking him for not letting you experience something so horrific and so devastatingly terrifying as such a thing like that you are blessed. As i pour the already condensating water in the glass of ice i hear it crack and sputter as it meets the delicious water that my mouth so desperately craves. as i drank my thoughts about waking up tomorrow already send shivers down my spine because I know of the severe difficulties it brings to my head and body as i lay on my sofa since noticing it's significantly cooler than my room and my bed my lids were feeling as if they'de been doing laps around my head they felt tired and heavy aching lying down over my eyeballs a feeling that i so desperatley needed, and very much deserved. as my phone rings up my alarm for 7: o'clock my brain wakes in a sudden hard instance, my head and body both aching my visions blurry atleast Remembered to take my contacts off or my vision wouldn't be there at all as my brain body and soul tell my conscious to go back to bed the feeling of sweet sweet sleep calls my

I woke up not knowing where I was questioning everything that was going on. I was surrounded by doctors i had seen previously at the rehab center, when they had realized I had opened my eyes a few of them began to shout he’s awake. After hearing them scream that I looked over and there was Addison laying in the bed next to me with tubes hooked up to him. I tried to sit up but couldn’t, there was this sharp pain in my hip. The doctor rushed over and said “Don’t try to sit up, everything is okay son.” I began to ask what was wrong with Addison but all they kept on saying was “He’s fine don’t worry about him.” The doctor were examining me as I was laying there, they checked my ears, my mouth, and my eyes and documenting all of it. Later that night

The week I got this diary was the week Babas orphanage had its grand opening and he took me with him to the lake and I was so excited I was getting time with just Baba, but the whole time we were there, he was writing, preparing and