Seeking tips to overcome sleep anxiety and improve sleep quality.

I’ve been here . Actually stayed up for 7 days because of it and it was torture…thought I was losing my mind …. The trick to this is not to do anything actually …. When you attempt to do things those things are actions ….. those actions mean you’re trying to avoid something …. I. Your case, you’re trying to avoid not sleeping…. The more energy you put in doing things in attempt to avoid not sleeping …. The harder it is for you to sleep .. lay through your anxiety and trust that you will fall asleep … this is a process but I went from taking Benadryl , sleeping pills , and none of it working …. Actually the worst time of my life …. To now being able to sleep with no problem … that will be you too …don’t view sleeping as a task and something to worry about …. The more you shift your mind from that …. The easier it will be .

I sometimes get into these loops too. What I do is make myself work so much until i literally faint - either workout or studying (even tho im 8h in school), and my body gets so tired that i dont have energy to make my bed, let alone psychoanalyze. Ik it's not the healthiest method, but it works for me. I hope you get better

I’ve had this as well. For me it was always worse when I knew the next day was important and wanted to feel good. The absolute worst thing about it, is that you know if you have a sleepless night it usually makes the OCD worse the next day because your brain isn’t working properly. I’ve had so many bad days over the years because of this. What has happened to me in the past is, a thought would come into my head along the lines of “jeez, I really hope I get a good sleep tonight or else I’ll feel rotten tomorrow and I want to feel good because I’m doing X or Y”. Fatal ☠️. This is the type of thing that a person without OCD probably wouldn’t even cross their mind. This disorder is dreadful, it’s such a drag on life. The other thing I find is that OCD affects the duration of sleep as well. Even on “good” nights, I always wake up early, even weekends. Up until I was in my mid twenties I could sleep until 9 a.m or so but now that never happens.