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    Nightmares. What helps?

    I had dreadful nightmares for ages like you and now they are gone for some years. I stopped all sleeping medication (tranquillizers, sleeping pills, antidepressants) and they gradually disappeared but I also "accepted" my erratic sleeping patterns since sleep deprivation brings them back and...
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    Just got the NEWS, Devastated

    From being happy and hopeful about XMRV and WPI I have passed to have bad feelings about them for this sort of things. Why are they offering the test (and spending a lot of money) when nothing is yet proven. The positive ones feel devastated... and so do the negatives... and all for no reason...