Dealing With Your Post-traumatic Amputation Nightmare
our brain is dealing with the trauma your amputation caused. All amputees share certain things. At some point in our rehabilitation, we all have a dream where we are walking on our own unassisted. This is less profound for people who have great success in their physical recovery. However, if you are like me, who struggles with recovery, this dream may be more of a nightmare as deeper feelings of exhaustion and fear after waking up and facing your new body image. Your brain says this is too much, and I am going back to before I lost that limb when I felt whole again. The psychological term for this type of dream is called a posttraumatic nightmare. They are generally defined as threatening and frightening dreams that awaken a dreamer and are be marked by intense negative emotions, such as anger or sadness at having to deal with their current state.
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