can you guys relate your anxiety to irregular sleep cycles? when you go sleep in 3-4-5AM do anxiety flare up?

Bad sleep really does a number on my mood. Good sleep is very important for mental health broadly speaking. Not just optimum length of time slept, but also consistent bedtimes at night.

Yes, absolutely. Even if I sleep a full 7-8 hours, if I sleep at a weird time, like 5-6 am, I will feel very anxious when I wake up the next day, for no tangible reason. It is like a physical sensation of generalized anxiety. The effect also compounds for me - if I sleep that late for days in a row, each subsequent day I feel more anxious, to the point of waking up feeling mildly panicked. I'm actually going through this this week - before this week, I was regularly sleeping at a normal hour. This week I've been sleeping between 3-6 am, and man, I haven't had my anxiety spike this high in a while! I was already planning to sleep earlier tonight, but this only further reminds me how arbitrary anxiety from ocd can be - if sleeping early can have such a profound effect, is what we're worrying about really worth all our time and energy? No! It never is! I don't know if sleeping early can help everyone, but I encouraged anyone to try it - it can't hurt! I hope you can sleep early tonight and feel better soon. <3