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I’m really anxious but I really need to sleep. How do you calm yourself down? I have been not doing great with my ocd at all lately my head feels like it’s going to explode.
I’m really anxious but I really need to sleep. How do you calm yourself down? I have been not doing great with my ocd at all lately my head feels like it’s going to explode.
i don't know if this is the answer you're looking for but listening to white noise w headphones on helps quiet my thoughts rather quickly. it's worth a try! i hope you find something that helps you soon
@breestone1216 ^thiss or brown noise i heard helps for calming you down
Hey !! What I do I that I put on some nature songs, it really helps me to calm down ! Other than this I didn’t really find any other thing that helps me a lot! I hope you will find and I send you a lot of strength 🫶🏼
I'm not doing well either for months now we just lost a family member and then it reminded me of my Father passing then my Aunts not doing well and she's alone and then I have autoimmune diseases with chronic pain that trigger the OCD so I understand I'm trying to LET GO but it keeps pulling me back I take something to relax me only to have it make me feel like I'm out of it when I really need to be there for my loved ones then it fades then I'm back at the feeling of it grabbing a hold of me..😔 I think we need to just breathe meditate and I've been wanting to journal again I think that can help and I like to draw and do some kind of art like coloring or painting.. 🌈
@Sunnyday17 This sounds so awful. I hope you are able to gain the strength to overcome this I am rooting for you ❤️ good luck stay healthy
Look into a benzo through a psychiatrist for emergency situations. This helps me a lot. Herbal tea (caffeine free) and feel-good tv show or movie helps too. Hang in there.
Falling asleep to a nostalgic childhood movie/TV show always does the trick for me :) but if screen time before bed isn’t your thing, herbal tea and a warm shower will relax the body and offer alternative stimuli, hope you sleep soon!
Long term ERP if you aren’t doing it will help you manage you OCD. It has helped me so much.
I myself prefer Brown noise to relax to others can be too much for me.. ❤️💜
American Idol! Lol I just watched the first ep (paid for Hulu) and it made me feel alive again and I experienced joy the whole time! I almost couldn’t believe it, also the calm app sleep stories can help me as well as melatonin
I learned to practise mindfulness, a few minutes everyday, and all if a sudden I discovered that I could use this to get to sleep. Focusing on my breath has helped me immensely. If its really hard (stressful times)I practise prolonged muscle relaxation before sleep. The good thing with these tools is that you can use them whenever you need. There are a lot of guided exercises on you tube. Long time ago I had to use sleep pills, the last 15 years I haven't. It's like I have "learned" how to let go, calm down, and sleep.
Thank you so much for all of your help ❤️ I appreciate it so much and I hope you all are having a great day. I will definitely use all of this in the future
My ocd has been at an extreme all time high the past 2 weeks and I am in dire need of some relief. I’m not sleeping right anymore. for context: I live in the south and found a springtail on my sheets about 2 weeks ago. This was like 2 days before our bug guy came and sprayed (it’s a normal maintenance thing here) so it’s a common bug down here and I’ve found them all over different areas of the house before. Finding it in my bed sent me on a bit of a spiral bc I started to doubt if it even was a springtail and that i was wrong and that it was a bed bug, not trusting my brain. It was a bad, sleepless night and carried over continuing feelings. Typical ocd stuff. Well two days later, I’m a nurse and I had a patient that actually had bed bugs. This wasn’t the first day they were here and I did not see any myself but it still freaked me out. There had one 2 founds after visitors came the day before. Of course I wore PPE in the room (coveralls shoe covers and hair net) going in and took everything off before exiting the room. When I came home I stripped in my garage and bagged everything down to my shoes. Threw everything in the wash and did multiple cycles. There were no other steps I could take but I still had a terrible night. Hours of ruminating and going back and forth about tracing my tracks, thinking of new ways I could’ve taken one home with me. Just checking everything. I was already on a spiral from the springtail. Having two such back to back triggering events for me so closely related has made me deteriorate significantly. I was already doing bad with my normal OCD and starting therapy here. I obsess over the thought of having bedbugs constantly and haven’t been able to sleep. I am constantly checking my bed while in it and can’t settle down. My bed is heavy too and I keep hurting myself lifting my mattress to check. But I need to check. I’ve become obsessed. I check everything and go down Reddit rabbit holes looking for new things. And of course, I talk myself into it every time. I can’t take it anymore, it’s bleeding off into other parts of my life like friendship and marriage because I am so high anxiety right now. I need relief so bad. I’ve never felt this unstable to be honest. I feel like even someone without ocd would be really struggling with this topic, nevermind me, with ocd to a point where I just started treatment. These aren’t even my normal intrusive thoughts and compulsive acts. It’s just taken on a life in the last week and I can’t find any sign that it’s going to slow down. when I think rationally I know I did everything right to prevent but I can’t shake it. 💔
It’s night rn where I’m at and I’ve been getting bombarded with thoughts and I have anxiety I tried doing compulsions because before doing them I could feel my heartbeat from the anxiety now I’m a bit less anxious but nowhere near close to calm because no matter how many times I see that I’m not gay it keeps coming back.
So my OCD got that bad to the point where I’m barely having ocd and my body is stuck in stress, I can’t sleep, my mind is soo loud and my chest hurts and my vains are popping out and I feel like my body is shutting down what do I do ☹️ I don’t even feel like I am here I can’t focus on anything I’m always zoned out
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