I’m stuck on breathing and blinking manually 😭😭😭😭😭

I’ve already read taht article and I still feel the same. Ty tho /:

It was a game changer here too. I couldn't stop controlling my breathing. When I let go of the worry, It then became like a full-time meditation.

Can i ask you a question about breathing ocd pls? I do have it and i can not sleep at all! Is that all about the fear related to sleep if I'm not mistaken

@Mohamed.Elmsh Conscious breathing is actually a form of meditation. When I first had this fear, I couldn't sleep at all. I was hyperventilating. But when you accept it, and don't try to push away that conscious breathing, you will feel deeply relaxed.

@Ana741 The same. Try to focus on these functions even more. The problem is not the action, but how you respond to it. I had a severe OCD episode once with swallowing. I was constantly afraid I was gonna choke even when swallowing my saliva. So I would spend the entire day swallowing manually and in purpose, every 10 or 20 seconds. My mouth was completely dry, making it easier to choke. Eventually, when I would indeed choke, I would " confirm " my fear and swallow even more. That lasted 4 months or so. Now I don't care at all about that, even when I get conscious of my swallowing.

@rodrigog Oh I'm so happy for you! How did you get rid of this fear? Do you sleep well now and how? Thank you

@Mohamed.Elmsh I still struggle with sleep anxiety, but that sensorimotor OCD doesn't bother me at all anymore. In fact, being aware of my breath has become a form of powerful meditation.

@rodrigog Me too breathing ocd doesn't bother me that much actually! Insomnia is killing me I have took many medications didn't work at all. I don't know what to do

@Mohamed.Elmsh That's a form of sleep anxiety that I'm struggling with too. I'm basically having 7 or 8 nights of well slept nights, followed by a sleepless nights. Then the loops starts in again. What is causing your insomnia? What thoughts pop up?

@rodrigog It's all about the fear related to sleeping which keeps me awake for the whole nights I got this problem when I got breathing ocd actually

@Mohamed.Elmsh I struggle with this fear too. I'm basically on a loop like I have a thought =I worry about not getting to sleep at night due to that thought = Either I don't sleep and get severely anxious until the next time I sleep, or I sleep and have the anxiety decreasing day by day until the next worrisome thought. So far, I ranged from dying in sleep, being hyper aware about the last second I'm awake, being conscious about my breathing, being abducted by Aliens, being buried alive, being punished by an Artificial Intelligence from the future with insomnia, being punished by God with insomnia and many others.