How Do Evil People Sleep at Night?
Asking on Behalf of All Survivors of Abuse
It has been a minute since I sat to write on this platform. It has been a hectic few weeks and I have been struggling, as usual, to sleep unmedicated.
Over the past year, I have been trying to deal with insomnia. My physician said it could be hormone related, but likely its due to trauma that I have gone through over the past year or more. I take prescribed meds at night with a nice backup of melatonin. When I sleep, I dream. My dreams range anywhere from terrifying, to eerily strange, to just plain weird. I wake in a sweat, often confused in my own environment, shaking, and thirsty. I double check to make sure my husband is snoozing beside me and that I am safe, before I slowly return to slumber. This is a nightly occurrence. CPTSD has a grip on my sleep consciousness, as it does my husband’s as well.
How Do Monsters Sleep?
The fact that people who are narcissistic, abusive, or cruel, can sleep, confuses me. I know the demons in my life sleep much better than I do, because I have asked them in the past, “how was your sleep?” before our relationships went…
