HASSAN PATEL
- Date posted
- 1y ago
LIVING ON MY OWN
Please give me good advice to manage all my evening at home when I am home alone please help me
mortalmothermortalmother
- Date posted
- 1y ago
i struggle with freetime extremely bad but recently ive started looking into music production and playing a guitar that my family had. its still hard not just overthinking and doing my compulsions but now i have something new and interesting to go back to. ive also made a list of things i like doing like painting and other stuff and its on my wall so i can pick one of those if i feel existential or bored
HASSAN PATELHASSAN PATEL
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Thank you very much for responding to my message. I am home alone for a whole month and I am bored and I suffer with insomnia and autophobia I am also diagnosed with magical thinking ocd. I am scared worried and I can't set an hour by hour routine from evening till later at night. I can't sleep all night long. At day times I am ok as I stay out and don't come home I hate an empty house. My obsessions take over me and I have to do all the rituals over and over again.
mortalmothermortalmother
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@HASSAN PATEL i hear that, with my sleeping patterns the only thing that has helped was an anxiety med called hydroxyzine and i take another that makes me tired. i can stay up all night and day thinking but having that knock me out really helps deal with the daytime anxiety. or falling asleep to a show or podcast, some say asmr. its like being involved in a convo besides your brain and not having to respond. and im sorry to hear about the autophobia, i would just recommend thinking about time with yourself like your on a date with yourself, or like a girls night. i do that like i do skincare and clean , even though its fs compulsive, and then like entertainment or learning in my freetime so i dont feel guilty about the time alone. i hear u and ur not alone! my obsessions and magical thinking takes ahold of me too. im trying to use exposure to not taking ahold of my compulsions but its so difficult. bouncing between things is the only thing i can do to make me feel "productive" i suppose? and i cannot work on routine either but i understand that's stressful
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