does anyone else get morning anxiety or rather, anxiety whenever you wake up? doesn't really matter what time, but by the time you're awake, you get anxious and your problems seem like they multiplied as if sleeping collected all your troubles and threw them at you by the time you woke up

YES!! Completely, I experience the most anxiety in the mornings and then in the evenings. My obsessions start literally choking me and I feel so on edge. The obsessions appear even in my dreams, which is even more disturbing because it multiplies the morning anxiety. When I first started having it, the first thing I thought about was “oh my god the thoughts are not here, does it mean they’re my intuition” and later they started appearing out of nowhere.

The more I did that the more in control of my mind I felt. Even in times of doubt. If doubt is constant then that’s the OCD talking back because it’s losing your attention. Picture a parent who’s child is throwing a tantrum. You can pick them up once to calm them but eventually the only way they learn to not throw tantrums to get what they want is when the parent doesn’t immediately react. OCD works the same in the mind. You OCD is throwing a tantrum and that’s all.

Yes, i get morning anxiety, wake with anxious thoughts. Usually when I start doing things they fade a bit, but often I am tired and stay in bed. Sometimes journalling helps or just accepting I am anxious and be kind to myself. Does anything help you?

I do a lot of things directed at self-discipline which is not motivation. Self-discipline creates new habit which create new character. As someone who struggled with addiction my over-stimulated mind would allow my OCD to make me feel out of control. I had to start with both self-love but also self-discipline which is to do the new thing even if I just want to lay in bed.

I think that's connected with depression