Obsessions keeping me awake

I'm so freaking sick of this I CAN'T fall asleep because my obsessions and fears just keep rolling and rolling. I am so freakin sleep deprived and I'm trying to keep it together. And being tired and unmotivated makes the worries so much worse. I HATE being this way, feeling so exhausted that I'm paralyzed and don't know how to handle my thoughts I'm trying to let them come and go but they're so upsetting I have a therapy appointment tomorrow so maybe I can get some help there. I just feel no relief from the obsessions and I do not know what to do.

Username: Lynda FlattLynda Flatt

User type: Therapist

Date posted: 2y ago

I hope your therapy appointment was helpful for you bunniesncheesecake. Our minds tend to think all the thoughts at night! When I can’t sleep, I tell myself that I’ve been here before and made it through the next day on little sleep, and if it happens again, I can cope again. Acceptance may seem simple, but it can be very effective.

Username: egillegill

Date posted: 2y ago

I have the similar problems. Try taking some valerian root capsules they help my mind calm down.

Username: KillianKillian

User type: NOCD Alumni

Date posted: 2y ago

I’m sorry you’re having trouble sleeping. I resonate with what you said about how being tired can make the worries stronger. I hope you were able to get some support at your therapy appointment. I wonder if you’ve done any work around rumination with your therapist? Sometimes when our thoughts are racing or rolling, we are ruminating (which is a compulsion), but we mistake it for obsessions. This is actually good news because compulsions are something we can choose to resist. It means we can help ourselves, and we are in control of how we respond to scary thoughts. Making that distinction has been a big step for me to interrupt the anxious thought spiral. I’m happy to send more on this if you feel like it might be helpful. I’m sending you strength 💜

Username: Lisa LeeLou Lisa LeeLou

User type: NOCD Alumni

Date posted: 2y ago

Thank you for sharing what you are going through. I am sorry to hear you are struggling. I can definitely relate to struggling with sleeping. I know it may sound cliché, but I’ve found playing classical music or some other sleep sounds to be helpful. Even if I don’t necessarily fall asleep, it helps me relax a bit. I hope your therapy appointment was helpful. Please try to keep in mind thoughts are just thoughts and they do not define you. Recovery from OCD is possible. Please be patient with yourself. I wish you the best of luck in recovery journey.

Username: Buffbuff

Date posted: 1y ago

Sleep obsession

When I get really stressed I obsessed about that I never vill sleep again. I'm so fucking tired of it. It's hard because I have a lot of autoimmune diseases so logically I also know that I need sleep. Which making it worse because that tells OCD that I'm right. I do all the classics things, telling my self that I can go one night without sleep, that I can cancel the important thing tomorrow etc. But it doesn't not help. It makes it worse. It's not about sleep it's about me worrying about a lot of real stuff I don't want to think about so I think about that I will never sleep again. Any ideas? I know I will feel stressed and it will be a lot for me to handle tonight. But I don't want to give in to my compulsions. That's all. I want to take the fight. I just needed to tell some one and know I'm not alone. I've done it before with OCD so I know I can do it. It's just so hard when it's all in my head.

Username: StrawberrySun

Date posted: 1y ago

Early morning ocd

Early morning havnt slept and ocd hasn't stopped for days I just want to be able to breath it's so debilitating in every way and I just feel the ocd thoughts start to pop ideas in my head and the things it comes up with like the worries are not just thoughts they are fully formed situations and very specific when I haven't even thought about it before it's like it forms this whole thing in my head subconsciously and then before I know it I'm chillin and then I'm just 50 ft under water drowning because it just throws a whole spacific situation at me that I never even thought of this effects me in every way possible and I just lay here misrible all day having seizer after seizer from stress being suicidal and just suffocating and so much more I just dread every moment I'm awake because the moment I am counsious it starts ugh it's every moment of my day just suffering so yeah really not looking forward to waking up 10 years of this and I'm exhausted the only relief I get is switching to another theme like i just wamma get pregnant so i csn obsess over that instead of what i am rn ot effects everyone around me and im just so miserable

Username: linabina

Date posted: 46w ago

Sleep deprivation

Another night of waking up at 5am with intrusive thoughts & fears. Fears of someone breaking into my house and harming me, fear of house fires and being unable to get my mom & cats out, being overwhelmed with “all the things I need to do” the next day. Obsessing to check the downstairs camera. It’s exhausting and causes me lack of sleep. And then I’m unable to sleep for hours after I wake up sometimes.. and my cat will wake me up in the morning. It’s driving me crazy. 😞😞😞😞 I also need all of my blankets perfectly aligned or I can’t sleep, make my bed every single day bc of it, cannot sleep with pants on or tight clothing. Etc. list goes on…

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