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Yes and its crazy. Happens all the time. I always have an urge to check my exes insta and we broke off two years now. Then with work arriving late is so scary for me or having to clean something over and over again till its perfect (I'm a housekeeper for a living). I get dreams about all sorts of things that relate to my OCD and thats why I hate falling asleep sometimes. You think sleeping and dreaming will take you away from the reality of it all but not really cause it will follow you. Sometimes I should say.. its just weird how our minds work. I hate living with OCD🙃
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Yes! This happened to me last night
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Wow thanks to both of you for your responses. My OCD in my sleep puts me in the same situations as I am when I’m awake. Is horrible and it’s crazy that one can still experience spikes when sleeping as well as the corresponding anxiety that accompanies it.
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Literally can’t stop having them. I always give advice to people who have them, and ways to get rid of them, but it seems like I can’t even take my own advice. Luckily, we usually forget what happens in our dreams the more we think about them. And eventually, we forget them completely.
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Absolutely right MakeAChange
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I have contamination ocd and sometimes I’ll have dreams that I’m washing my hands and that I somehow mess up and keep having to do it again until I realize i’m sleeping and wake up... it’s so weird!
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Ohhh wow Ktsan that’s very unique.
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I had one just last night but I can only remember the part when what my OCD keeps telling me is true came true, but I don't remember having any anxiety until I woke up. Does anyone else get this?
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No Twinkabella my anxiety typically happens during the spike in the dream. When I wake up I’m fine. But I think it’s an interesting concept that you feel the anxiety only when you wake up. I hope we get some more feedback from others in the room regarding sleep related OCD.
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It has only happened to me once the other time I felt the anxiety in the dream. It made me really scared as I was scared that it meant what it was telling me was true
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Of course Twinkabella. I really believe with everything in me that the answer to OCD will be discovered only when the OCD community as a whole can put all their experiences together and try to find a single puzzle piece that only each person has... put all the puzzle pieces together and I believe you’ll see the answer plain as day. This has always been my theory on OCD. Any of your ideas are welcome.
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Anyone struggle with this with having ocd?
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It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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My ocd gets so loud in the silence and right before bed when there’s no distractions. I always struggled with anxiety since my teens and guided meditation used to help… until OCD. First time trying guided meditation with OCD I had an intrusive thought of “what if you actually lose control and can’t follow these instructions?” And got even more anxious 🫠🫠🫠 had to stop, and haven’t tried to meditate ever since. Just curious to know. Sometimes I feel like I have the worst type of OCD. It will latch onto anything to make me anxious!
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