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It takes forever to fall asleep and I usually only get 5 hours of deep REM sleep. It sucks
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I have insomnia to contend with as well as my OCD. Nights are sometimes horrendous and filled with nightmarish thoughts that the house will set on fire, a burglar will get through one of my kids windows, etc.. should I actually manage to fall asleep. According to my FitBit, I sleep less than 3 hours a night and even that has bouts of 15-20 periods of ‘restlessness’. I can get Zopiclone on prescription, and this really does afford me 6-9hrs sleep, but it’s never been anything I want to rely on, and I only take it for 2 nights out of 7. So you aren’t on your own and you do have my sympathy... and I agree; it’s the absolute worst.
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Try some relaxation sounds during the night
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I had some sleeping problems in the last week. And 3 days before I had a sensory overload in my dream and it was so horrible! I was dreaming about a train station with a lot of times, platforms and trains. Suddenly my best friend wanted something from me and my alarm clock went on and i snoozed it and all that shit came again and again and i felt like shit in the morning. I don't know why but I have a lot of sensory overloads in the last time. Maybe my borderline personality disorder has something to do with it.
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Overthinking and GAD after chaotic days like yesterday increase OCD here, too. (I am a teacher and covered a shift in another classroom...) You are not alone!
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i feel this so much. haven’t slept more than 3 hours a night this week because of health ocd. you’re not alone! i try to remind myself that even if all my worst fears were to come true, not sleeping would only make everything worse as incentive for me to try and sleep. also remembering that even resting with your eyes closed and practicing breathing gives a lot of benefit of sleep even if you don’t fully fall asleep
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Yes, I am also struggling to sleep but it is due to my intrusive thought increase at night. I have fear that i will act on my thought at night
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- 25w
Do y’all ever forget basic needs sometimes? I have been going through a phase where I don’t drink water all day until night time and I drink so much that I hold my pee throughout the night until morning. I notice sometimes I even hold my breathe and get light headed or a headache and think something is medically wrong with me 😭or is this my ocd?
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My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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- 17w
My mind just starts racing with thoughts all day. I overthink aswell so I just tend to sit in the thoughts and can’t escape. I mostly have thoughts that tell me I don’t like the things I do like snowboarding or backpacking or if I even if I love my girlfriend. Deep down I know I do but then I start getting worried that the more I think these things the more they come true. Then I have tons and tons of more thoughts throughout the day and it just feels like I’m constantly having anxiety and constantly battling my brain over things that don’t even make sense. I’m only 17 and this is extremely hard and I feel like I’m wasting these teenage years. I don’t know what to do or where to go. I’ve picked up reading my bible and praying more but the thoughts persist please help.
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