Mornings are hard

I feel the same most days. Feels like my OCD and anxiety peaks in the early morning, and graaaaadually decreases throughout the day, and I find myself pretty content in the evening oftentimes. Meditation, mindfulness, and self-compassion practices are helping me with tough mornings. Perhaps they could help others. Just this morning I could see how stressed and guilty I was feeling, and what I really needed was to journal, give myself a hug, check in with the NOCD app, and cry for a bit before starting the day.

I am struggling with this too. I try to get up and walk my dog, but some days I don’t have it in me. My husband pulled me out of bed today because I crawled back in. I was annoyed but I’m thankful he did, or else I would’ve sat in my dread.

I have had this morning dread too. It’s happening less but it pops up every now and then. It was nearly debilitating in my 20’s. Antidepressants help me. But it still sneaks into my head once in a while. Pets help or taking care of plants. It gives me a reason to get up besides work!

Me exactly! Dread and panic in the morning. Subsides around 3pm and it’s like a light switch where suddenly I can think more “rationally” and feel almost like normal (normal as in how I feel when I don’t have anxiety). I’ve tried researching morning anxiety and some think it has to do with dopamine but that doesn’t make sense to me since it lasts until early evening time. I’ve been trying meds, watching funny movies and reading as best I can but it is hard to concentrate with all the anxiety there. Another thing is when people talk to me I just can’t think and therefore hardly say anything. It’s like it’s too much work to think and talk. Exhausting. The meds kindof dull the anxiety but I’m afraid to take the prescribed amount that it might make me just want to sleep and I already have a hard time getting out of bed as it is.