Any advice on how to get decent sleep with ocd, I tried melatonin and that will put me to sleep, but I’ll wake up an hour later with an even stronger urge to do compulsions. I’ve been pacing around my house all night. It’s currently 8:13 and I’m exhausted. I don’t even care about the thoughts, I just want sleep, but as soon as I close my eyes I get flooded with thoughts. Any advice would be vey appreciated.

I have experienced the same thing many times. I really like melatonin. It helps me a lot. When I am not in a good place mentally I wake up more during the night. Some things that have helped me. Read an uplifting book. I am religious so I read book about Jesus. I think that helps a lot. Jesus helps me a lot. Also when I exercise hard and get those endorphins, ocd to me is more of a chemical imbalance in my brain. When I get those chemicals my brain works better and doesn’t come up with those thoughts. Pray. Watch a relaxing YouTube channel that helps calm you down. I have used all of these things to help me. I hope they can help you.

i struggle with sleeping, too. i'm actually scared to fall asleep without doing a set routine of compulsions because i'm scared of doing stuff in my sleep. when i told my doctor, she recommended eating healthier and exercising before bed. i haven't tried yet, but maybe they will be helpful?

I usually do guided meditation before bed and I use this sleeping mask where it is also headphones I’ll put a link if I can find it but after meditation I put raining sounds thunder sounds for my preference and it keeps mya Trent ion in the sounds and just fall asleep eventually.

I’ll give it a shot then, would I just have to call my doctor and set up an appointment?