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Use ERP technique when you are conscious (i.e- not sleeping, awake)... When you succeed in that, nightmares will decline. If you do something subconsciously it doesn't count (just like wet dreams in nofap), however, there will be physical happenings in brain (i.e - chemical rush, amygdala activation etc). So, use some techniques to prevent nightmares (like- sound sleeping, sleeping on side, meditation before sleep etc.) Lastly, you fear itself is lie. During OCD, your anxiety-responsible parts of brain gets activated and your front and side parts of brain consumes lot of energy (causing mental drain) and this is because if your unwanted anxiety (like fear of night mares, be confident and kick away your anxiety. Practice mindfulness, meditation, yoga, nature walk and listen to soothing music. All the best...
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Thank you
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- 4y ago
All of this but I recommend listening to rock and roll and lifting weights to really fuel that fire in your belly.
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Thanks man
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- 4y ago
I had a bad night about a month ago. Lots of intruding thoughts, and I couldn't stop crying. I put on some stupid movie from Netflix, and watched it. Eventually I fell asleep without even realizing! I think what helped was hearing the words with my eyes closed and focusing on that. I also know a few people who listen to music when they sleep. I hope that this helps, and I hope you can get a good night's sleep in ❤
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Thanks a lot!
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- 15w ago
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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- 14w ago
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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- 10w ago
My OCD has been terrible the for the past two weeks. I have a fear that I will never be able to get out of the thought loop. I am hyper aware of my thoughts and it disturbs me. I haven’t been able to eat for 10 days. I force myself. I haven’t been able to sleep for more than a couple hours. Then I wake up and ruminate for a couple hours, until I’m exhausted. I’m also afraid I’ll never sleep well again. And I’m afraid I’ll never eat and enjoy my food again. I’m afraid I’ll never be able to stop thinking about this enough to enjoy my family ever again.
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