issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 40w

Morning/Day/Night Anxiety Swings?

Does anyone else experience this? MORNING • Whenever I wake up I feel okay-ish. I usually wake up 6 hours in and decide to sleep some more because I’ve noticed that helps me sometimes. • I wake up around two hours after that and feel immediately anxious and start to ruminate about whatever my brain can find. DAY • Anxiety has just increased and I’m an absolute mess. Most likely had a panic attack or two. NIGHT • Anxiety is calming down, I feel better. • As the night progresses, I feel almost back to normal ALMOST. I actually have an appetite. I feel happy, I can be with my family. I feel like I deserve love. • If I overdo it, tire myself out, I start getting anxious again. It loops like this every single day. Does anyone else experience this???

OrMsB

Date posted: 40w

Yes!! I don’t know but at night I’m calmer?? (Well sometimes) but in the day I’m more anxious. But it’s might be because I don’t really have a routine at the moment. But anxiety in the day suck. And let’s not talk about mornings, the time when I wake up is one of the hardest at the day

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

I was calmer at night before bc I knew I'd be going to bed to escape it

OrMsB

Date posted: 40w

@Speckles Never thought about that, but I think I can relate. Well depends there are nights that are still hard

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

@OrMsB I use to dead the morning

OrMsB

Date posted: 40w

@Speckles Morning with ocd are the hardest. Like everything comes back in one second and you don’t know how to accept it . It’s tough

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 40w

@Speckles Unfortunately that’s not why I’m calmer. I avoid my bed because I feel so fine and I try to stay up so I can fully enjoy it.

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 40w

@OrMsB Yes, and then if something triggers you and the anxiety skyrockets:(

OrMsB

Date posted: 40w

@isshpra Yes I understand it’s happens a lot

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

@OrMsB I meant to say dread not dead! Mornings were really difficult for me until these meds

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

@isshpra Well. That's good!! I was always in bed. I know my husband was getting irritated

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

I really thought I wasn't going to make it, so if I can do it... you can too!!

curefan6

Date posted: 40w

YES!! currently experiencing this so intensely

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

Sorry...I hate being anxious and sick to my stomach

ROCDmensch

Date posted: 40w

It may help you to read about the Cortisol awakening response :) also sleeping in can highten this phenomenon. And compulsive rumination makes it worse

Anonymous

Date posted: 40w

@ROCDmensch Hi! Do you have any tips to stop ruminating?

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

Yes...I did for a while until my meds starting kicking in

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 40w

@Speckles Do you mind me asking what meds you’re on? I tried lexpro made the urges much more intense I had to get off of it, tried Buspar but I had awful anxiety attacks constantly

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

@isshpra I'm on Anafranil for ocd and Lybalvi for bi polar. She just upped me to 150 mg and I feel the difference

Speckles

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 40w

@isshpra They always start you low. But that didn't do it for me

Jae18

Date posted: 40w

I do have a similar experience definitely specially when an ocd episode hits fresh like something with a new theme or something I’d have dreadful mornings and my body would be fighting the anxiety , my nervous system is on overdrive , constant visits to the bathroom and shaking and feeling cold and a loss of appetite due to vomiting a lot so yea it’s awful but it eventually goes away and usually nights are calmer and I feel more “normal” sometimes I get my appetite back and today was one of those exhausting days so yea definitely but I’m not sure why we experience similar symptoms or situations like that

Anonymous

Date posted: 23w

Night time anxiety

I think it's just anxiety, but I've been experiencing random bouts of anxiety around the evenings, usually around 8pm is when it kicks in. Is there an explanation for this? My head will feel cold and I'll start to feel dizzy and sick. Sometimes I worry it could be my eating habits.

Aldxma.steph

Date posted: 18w

Anyone else has this happen?

Anyone else just have days where they feel more calm and don’t have as many intrusive thoughts? But then later at night time it just comes back so you only had relief even for a little bit 😞😞 I feel like even when I’m not having my OCD send me intrusive thoughts, I always have a feeling in my stomach that something is wrong/off or a sense of doom. I always just feel on edge and anxious as if my mind is always preparing itself for the next horrifying intrusive thought to torment me with ugh 🫠

baukje

Date posted: 12w

Morning dread

I always feel the most anxiety and dread in the morning. That’s when I start overthinking a lot, and it becomes really hard not to seek reassurance on the internet and so on. What do you all do to ease the morning anxiety a bit?

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