anon s
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- 3y
sleep
is sleeping when you get overwhelmed by the intrusive thoughts healthy or is it avoidance?
Trying to Rise Above ThisTrying to Ri...
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- 3y
I think one of the things that has come up for me with my experience is that I would sleep when becoming overwhelmed from intrusive thoughts and they would go away temporarily, but they would just return. I found myself repeating the cycle with sleeping when intrusive thoughts when I felt they were too much to face and it became worse with the frequency of wanting to sleep. It did not help the problem, but made it worse. I then would also feel horrible after waking up because I felt like I wasted part of my day and then guilt would set in for sleeping. I have felt for myself it has not been healthy.
anon sanon s
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- 3y
thank you! i’m struggling right now because it’s physically and mentally exhausting to deal with thoughts so my immediate solution is “just sleep and everything will go away” but sometimes i’ll wake up feeling like even though i was sleeping it was still bothering me in my sleep. thank you for sharing :)
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