I'd like some advice if people are willing to offer.
Bit off a background on the subject, for about six moths at the start of the year, i went through a stage of physically draining depression caused by anxiety. I was chronically ill with fatigue, unable to concentrate or stay awake longer than six hours. many scans and blood tests later, I've started a round of mild medication to keep the anxiety under wraps.
It has worked fairly well, I still need a little extra sleep, and it's hard to concentrate sometimes, but it's calmed down a lot anxious tendencies i didn't even know I had. But i'm able to complete tasks and live life normally.
It has had a complicated side effect though; I have the most vivid and awful bad dreams. It's like all the anxiety from the day gets bottled up and released as I sleep.
I've had horrific dreams every night since I've started the medication. I won't go into detail, because most are extremely graphic, but they include: Acts of terror or horrific scenes, witnessing of extreme violence, and extreme emotional outbursts.
They can be really scarring and draining and I feel like my sleep is far more disturbed than it should be.
But I don't know whether to tell my doctor, because other than that, i'm functioning normally in waking day, and I can't afford for that to change. I was reluctant enough to go onto medication as it is.
Any thoughts on what I should do?