Does anyone else worry and going to sleep so much that it's hard to go to sleep and stay asleep. Or how does ocd affect yalls sleep. I just found out that I had it after years of battling thought about my health and other things in my life now I'm obsessing over sleep.what makes it worse is when I have a clear mind after distracting myself I revert back to the slave mind and it feels again like a weight is in my mind.
It sounds like your “worrying” at night is rumination. If you’re having trouble with not thinking so much about what you’re worried about then you’re likely allowing your mind to drift into ruminating. Allow your thoughts to flow but the moment you feel like you’re paying attention to figuring it out, trying not to think about it, or even letting your mind wonder about the topic in general, you’re ruminating which is a compulsion and will keep you in a cycle. Distraction is good but when you’re going to sleep, actively try to direct your thoughts to something pleasant and calming (not thought suppression but giving yourself something else to think about)
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Yes. I am sometimes afraid to go to bed, since I associate going to bed with being alone with my thoughts (and thus, alone with my OCD)…… Also, My OCD scares me into thinking that I’ll: A.) Not get *enough* sleep and then —> fear of having to go through the next day feeling really ‘off’, ‘manic’, and just ‘out of it’ (and then being hyper aware/hyper focused on *those* sensations the whole day). B.) Get *too much* sleep, not hear my alarm clock, miss an important appointment, and then —> fear of having to go through the next day with feelings of guilt, shame, like I’ve ‘wasted’ my day/was not productive enough (and then being hyper aware/hyper focused on *these* sensations plus possible reactive depression).
I very much worry about if I am going to bed at the right time and getting enough sleep and it ends up messing with my sleep. I get really stressed about falling back asleep if I wake up in middle of night. What I've found helpful is to ignore the intrusive thoughts that there is a "right" number of hours and I just try and sleep when I'm tired and wake up when I need to. It's hard at first because objectively we need a lot of sleep but sometimes just pushing through a few days to prove OCD wrong is worth the fatigue instead of convincing yourself you will have a bad day bc you slept less instead of just trying to push through
Thank u it's been like this for a month now and I'll keep my self distracted all day then I lay down and the worry comes again but your right it's just thoughts and I don't need to give it the attention it wants.
My OCD has been terrible the for the past two weeks. I have a fear that I will never be able to get out of the thought loop. I am hyper aware of my thoughts and it disturbs me. I haven’t been able to eat for 10 days. I force myself. I haven’t been able to sleep for more than a couple hours. Then I wake up and ruminate for a couple hours, until I’m exhausted. I’m also afraid I’ll never sleep well again. And I’m afraid I’ll never eat and enjoy my food again. I’m afraid I’ll never be able to stop thinking about this enough to enjoy my family ever again.
My ocd gets so loud in the silence and right before bed when there’s no distractions. I always struggled with anxiety since my teens and guided meditation used to help… until OCD. First time trying guided meditation with OCD I had an intrusive thought of “what if you actually lose control and can’t follow these instructions?” And got even more anxious 🫠🫠🫠 had to stop, and haven’t tried to meditate ever since. Just curious to know. Sometimes I feel like I have the worst type of OCD. It will latch onto anything to make me anxious!
So at night I have these intrusive thoughts that I leave the door wide open. This causes me to fear that someone will walk in the house and harm my family. I also have this back massage device. I fear that if I leave it plugged in on accident a fire will happen. So I went down to make sure that it was not plugged in. The thing is that I never used the massager that day. When I went back up I felt like I opened the front door (an entrance to my house) even though I didn't. I had to get my wife to check the door other wise I would not have slept. When I checked it I became more insecure. This has been reoccurence with me.
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