I have GAD, panic disorder trichotillomania and phobias, all of which onset in 2005. Ever since then, I have had awful nightmares *all* night, *every* night. It's not even confined to REM sleep, it's literally the whole time I'm asleep as far as I can tell. I wake up every 60-90 minutes usually in a cold sweat, shaking or crying. I've woken myself up by screaming, I've been convinced someone is in my room standing over me. They even reoccur throughout the night; when I wake up and calm down enough to go back to sleep, the dreams will often either reoccur and replay all the way through or simply continue where they left off. I am so tired of it. I do not want to go to sleep. Therapy was useless for it. I found nothing to help. 

But I've just hit four months on medication, 20 mg Celexa in the mornings and 50 mg hydroxyzine at night for insomnia. They have been a *godsend* during the day, I can't say enough good things - but hadn't had an impact on my dreams, that was one issue completely unaffected by either therapy or medication, apparently impenetrable. 

And then about a month ago I had my first non-nightmare in all these years. Just one of them, and it was honestly a miracle. Before that I couldn't remember the last dream I had that wasn't a horribly disturbing nightmare. Then I had *another* normal dream a week or so ago. And last night - *zero* nightmares. At all. All night!!!! I can't believe it. It doesn't feel real. I'm *amazed.* I thought it was hopeless.