If I had never had nightmares I would have never started working on my traumas. It would have went unspoken of until I died. But because I had nightmares it made me want to fix them. I was in denial at the time of having any issues about my rape or father's murder, and my doctor only diagnosed me with depression. So I had no reason to think I needed to work on myself.

At the time I didn't realize that nightmares were a symptom of PTSD. I worked on my nightmares by analyzing them and was enlightened that they were all about my traumas and problems. My dreams and nightmares showed me this and the light clicked on in my head, and I knew it was time to come out of denial and start healing. This led me to do some research and found out that I had PTSD. I told my new doctor this diagnosis and he strongly agreed.

Everyone has a way of fixing or healing themselves (I don't believe there is one correct way to go about it), and I worked on myself through dream analyzing, and now I rarely have nightmares. If some one healed them selves in a way I was unaware of, or even thought it was Voo Doo. Then so what! If it worked for them ....GREAT.

What ever works! I would not dismiss that approach every chance I got. I would acknowledge that it works for some people and be happy about it. The mind is complex and no one has an answer on how to cure PTSD or nightmares. The one thing we all agree on is that we need to heal through working on ourselves, and that can be done in more than one way.

Peace
Tammy