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I have this feeling, too. My own personal experience with trying to overcome this is to get up and say "I feel uncomfortable for some reason and Im going to keep going on with my day, despite it". I don't sit and wonder why I feel anxious, what's causing me to feel anxious or looking for my obsessions to try and neutralize the anxiety because it only makes it worse and it only feeds the monster. It will go away eventually, but for now just keep going about your day despite it :)

I wish I had a helpful answer, but I just wanted to comment here and say this happens to me almost every day, too. It feels like the anxious feeling sets the tone of the day and immediately causes the OCD to go into overdrive

I used to wake up all the time in a cold sweat panic from ocd and anxiety. When you wake up it is like your mind immediately goes into anxiety mode but is also half asleep so it can’t combat the anxiety as good as usual for like 5-10 minutes. The way I dealt with it was to tell myself before I fell asleep that I knew I would wake up anxious, and I would try my hardest to control it upon waking up. I would wake up and kind of “tank” the anxiety hits and just ride it out without letting myself panic. This mindset change kind of gave the morning anxiety less power over me, which ended up decreasing it.

i feel like going to bed with a calm mind means you’ll wake up feeling a bit calmer. i usually fall asleep with a racing mind and then wake up with a racing mind, it’s like my mind is picking back up where it left off. i know it’s hard to calm your mind but you could definitely try

You are probably waking up so anxious because you are going to sleep very anxious. Just from personal experience, I know that if I go to sleep very anxious, I am waking up several times during the night, having bad dreams, sweating, etc. I wake up not refreshed and I am already feeling anxious. Now I leave a comedy on while I sleep or a podcast and I feel like it helps block out the thoughts while I'm sleeping. Maybe you can try that!

for me I don’t feel any anxiety at all in the night but mornings and afternoons are a completely different story

Good question! I need to do the same!