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Mornings? How to make them better?
How do you guys make your mornings less hard? The ocd and anxiety is so terrible in the mornings… how do i make my mornings better so it will make a better start of your day
How do you guys make your mornings less hard? The ocd and anxiety is so terrible in the mornings… how do i make my mornings better so it will make a better start of your day
Morning are Probably the hardest part for me. Cause before I even open my eyes the intrusive thoughts hit with no remorse lol. There’s a bunch of videos on morning routines but here’s my person one: As soon as you wake up, go outside and go for a short walk. Nothing crazy but the exposure to natural light and some movement will help get you started very nicely and can also help with your sleep cycle Next thing is a cold shower. As cold as you can handle. Nothing long, you can do only a minute if that’s all you can handle but don’t go over 5 minutes. Bunch of benefits for that. After that I’ll journal/ read for a couple minutes And then finish up with stretching. if you have busy mornings you can make any adjustments you needs to to fit your schedule, but I always make sure to get my walk and shower at bare minimum. General notes: avoid caffeine for the first 30 min- hour you’re awake and during the routine keep your phone usage as low as you can.
You are not alone in feeling this way. I have heard many say the same thing, me included. I get up immediately, if I lay in bed my brain just tries so hard to ruminate 🤦♀️. I’ll grab my coffees, maybe a quick meditation and I get moving with my day. I try to have a plan and stick to it, even if it’s an noisy ICD day at least a get things accomplished 😀
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I'm a morning anxiety person, too. It's rough because it lasts all day. I've heard that it can be helpful to drink a full glass of water when you wake up. Give your body a head start at flushing some of the cortisol that gets released when we fist wake up. I like the suggestion about getting up right away and starting your morning routine. I try to start response prevention right away by being mindful of my body and brain and not engaging in compulsions. I know morning anxiety is super hard. I'm
I work out at the gym & come back home to a cup of mushroom coffee. Also, reading a book helps to ground my thoughts & quiet the mind. Maybe write a list for the day? That way there is no obsessing over what needs to get done first thing in the morning.
Often times I find myself spiraling out in the morning about all sorts of things. When I try and catch myself and figure out what I am obsessing over it’s like it goes away. I haven’t moved. I have been sitting frozen on the floor because I can’t go to work because I am behind on work and I hate being late and I hate being messy but I am frequently late and my room is cluttered and full of stuff. I want to be good and move and go to work but I don’t know what is coming today and I hate my job so I know I will get bored and when I have nothing to keep me busy and engaged I like start thinking and taking an inventory of what is going on and then I will feel a sensation and what is the sensation? How did it happen? And I know that I will pick up the bad emotions in the office and get contaminated, I was really worried about things like this as a kid too I cried because I had to touch dirt in kindergarten. I know I am this way and I have been this way for a while but at the same time I think I might just be normal and like I don’t know why I get stuck in thinking like this. Then I begin to doubt that OCD is real because everyone has a brain with wiring and everyone gets stuck in thought sometimes. I feel disabled from whatever this is because I am stuck. I literally cannot move because I don’t know what’s wrong and I know I have to go to work even though I feel like every moment I spend there is making everything worse because other people are so stressed and I get it from them. And I don’t feel ready because I just feel off and something is wrong and I just don’t know what to do because if it’s OCD or not OCD everything anyone knows about me is coming from me and I worry that I am often masking all the thinking I’m doing because thinking all the time is rude and inconsiderate and inconvenient for those around me, but I can’t stop. I just don’t feel right, right now - and I want to know WHY?? Why is everything off all the time? How do I even know that I am not making up the experience of OCD in my head to cover up something really wrong with me and now I am taking on the symptoms of OCD like an actress, because this could be something that I can latch onto as a final hope for explaining why I am stuck. So stuck so deeply and terribly stuck sitting on my floor next to my bed just scrolling to avoid thinking because any time I start thinking I am left with no answers or help or anything just this swirly feeling. I know I am trying, maybe not my best, but as much as I possibly can. I want to be a Special Education Teacher but I have so much so so so much doubt and uncertainty about every decision I make and everything I know that I can’t get there right now. I can’t do anything right now until it feels ok and then I will. It never feels ok. I know I have to be ok not feeling ok about it. I can be unsure and still be ok. I know it’s just my thinking and my body but I just can’t get past this feeling. And then I know that because I can calm myself and be ok even though I spent 2 hours of my life today already feeling stuck and spinning around and around and around in my head - I don’t feel sure about my OCD and I think it’s a bit of a scam made up by people to cultivate pathology around deep human thought because one day I might figure it out and we all think a lot.
Any tips on how to deal with the rollercoaster of good and bad days with OCD? I had such a good day yesterday with tackling my compulsions and rumination. I tend to get up in the mornings and my OCD loves to start immediately. It becomes frustrating when you feel like you made progress, only to go right back to where you were. Any positive encouragement of how you’ve dealt with this would be appreciated!
I was really anxious before I went to bed last night so I couldn't stop checking my phone because i kept getting scared i was gonna somehow use my phone while asleep and send people horrible messages. Then I managed to fall asleep but then i woke up really early in the morning and just couldn't get to sleep and my mind was racing. And then it somehow unearthed false memories from a few weeks ago. Then I had this thought that "I remember" and it just made me more anxious because I know I didn't do anything but my brain is trying to tell me that I remember. OCD makes no sense sometimes, but it's still scary all the same. I hope that everyone has a good day, or at least a better day than yesterday if you're having a rough time <3
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