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Terrorized by nightmares: Normal or Nuts?

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    Dr. Keith Ablow weighs in

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I am I know more mind not to let me ask ourselves a daily basis that's a question we -- back to keep -- -- every week and just.

She says this is Fox News contributor and psychiatrists the important part doctor -- aloe.

Good morning good morning so let's talk about this first email a nightmare knew since I'm a seventy year old woman.

And I have a recurring nightmare I've had them all my life more than one.

Usually the dreams involve entering a room where there's some unknown but terrifying thing or person or someone or something frightening -- is chasing me.

And we kept calling out for help he -- ticker every week -- -- I'm an otherwise normal happy woman a couple life and my normal -- -- Think she's normal.

-- some thinking to do during the daytime OK let me.

You've had these recurring nightmares for years.

But some things after you something is but it's not a monster in your sleep it's something that wants your attention a fear some -- your life if you haven't looked at.

So what do you do you go and you get yourself a therapist you start digging up your life story to find out what have you been running from.

Because a bottom line is I've found in eighteen years of practice as soon as you turn.

To face whatever is chasing you you win the nightmares stopped the night.

-- stopped right.

Yes -- number two.

I am regretting in the middle name I chose for my newborn daughter the nickname I would like to use is with another middle -- my mom's.

Can I call -- this even though her middle name is another shoot nine legally changed her middle name -- deal with the name it shows and my normal or might just playing well my -- Motorola just is it.

Well -- -- -- a totally different -- totally different yes listen I think.

This is just.

Totally normal.

Here's the thing people are so free to change their mind buyer's remorse buyer's remorse is okay you know.

Drew Lewis strangely secretary transportation he's the one who told me listen -- If you ever have planted planned and -- something and you change your mind that morning you go in and you tell your team I've changed my mind don't be free to do that.

If you haven't got feel she loves this new middle name is not gonna traumatize the BB that the middle -- exactly go paying attention and much.

I cannot -- -- here is a perfectly fine middle name -- good job.

But the wife because she says this unpaid the furniture she covers the -- up with sheets she doesn't allow me to sit in the twenty year old cat because the -- well.

Get flattened she is even -- pillows which he has got away for a few days so I don't -- -- it.

-- -- played great straighter up -- which relationship normal or not it's she's crazy he's -- How long here's the bottom line.

Can't live with this kind of rigidity and if you can't sit on the -- believe me there are other things that she's insisting he dude he's a little soldier.

In the living room and we're gone up it was the team having -- -- -- You can write and now she knows in the shag carpet she wanted to get you know all mess we're on the couch now and I don't mind -- he -- either.

Got -- more -- to tell me how I I don't know.

Questions and it right here and listen I need a lot of this is the Trojan.

And I'm finally slowly and you finally sitting on your -- -- up.