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I love watching calming/ satisfying videos on YouTube with soothing music in the background. It really helps me fall asleep when I am having trouble!
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I like to lay in bed and meditate😌
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Try meditation apps they have a lot of calming speakers or white noise playlists.
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Lavender and prayer! Bubble bath prior w essential oils help too
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I have, alongside my other OCD themes, an intense fear of insomnia. Although this has been improving somewhat — partly thanks to medication and The sleep school on YouTube — I still find myself ruminating about it throughout the day when I have something important the next day, I get stuck in the fear that everything will be ruined — for both myself and others — because my mind is so preoccupied with sleep. + a fear of depression coming back. It honestly feels like a form of sleep OCD. I'm not sure if that’s an official thing, but that’s how it feels to me. A form of erp is the idea of befriending wakefulness. That works great tbh. Things like sleep hygiene, meditation, etc. — tend to backfire because my OCD latches onto them and becomes too obsessive about “doing them right.” I’m genuinely wondering whether ERP — for example in the form of a worst-case-scenario audio loop (imaginal exposure) — could be helpful in this case. I’m hesitant to start unless I know it can actually help. Is there anyone who has experience with this or thoughts about it? I’m not looking for reassurance or tips to fall asleep — only for ideas on how ERP might be applied in this situation.
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Does anyone have any tips on how to sleep with harm ocd, I’m always so tired but I can’t fall asleep until it gets to the point my eyes won’t stay open, I’m scared that I’m gonna do something in my sleep or my thoughts just eont shut up and it causes issues with sleeping, advice needed please
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As you try to fall asleep, what exactly are you supposed to do? Most advice would be “just allow it but don’t engage” ok that sounds great but if it pulls you right out of sleep just as you’re drifting off, it’s hard not to engage. It’s like another person waiting for you to just fall asleep and then they purposely wake you up. Just let it keep happening? And yes, my mind is doing it on purpose. 🙏?
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