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is sleeping when you get overwhelmed by the intrusive thoughts healthy or is it avoidance?

"Pure" OCD

Trying to Ri...

Date posted: 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 s

Date posted: 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 :)

Nova2025

Date posted: 18w

OCD with the news

Curious.... the news has been terribly distressing for me and has stirred up OCD. Compulsive rumination and checking (news stories) are my go-to when OCD is triggered. Today, I purposely did not listen to my news podcast as I do every morning. I feel better-ish. Is this avoidance, or is this self care? Would continuing to listen to a podcast be exposure with response prevention applied to the compulsions that go with it? Thanks in advance!

M✨️

Date posted: 12w

I guess I'm not okay

I was sleeping after a very long stressful week at work and life but lately i was worried about myself cause I don't feel bad anymore just numb, I thought I was living and it's fine but I woke up now with jumble of different bad intrusive thoughts that it makes me feel like I'm crazy person it always happen when I'm stressed I guess but I feel like my mind is going crazy and I try to stop my mind from thoughts it's thinking about different things in one minute like idk what's going on Idk how to manage

ocdissucky

Date posted: 12w

Sleeping

Does anyone have any tips on how to sleep with harm ocd, I’m always so tired but I can’t fall asleep until it gets to the point my eyes won’t stay open, I’m scared that I’m gonna do something in my sleep or my thoughts just eont shut up and it causes issues with sleeping, advice needed please

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