Fear

Passing away in my sleep would be a peaceful way to go . One never knows. Life is short. Each day is a blessing, I try to make my peace at the start and end of each day , just in case “my number is up “sorta speak .

uhm yes. i can't go to sleep unless i physically can't keep my eyes open anymore. I always have to be on my phone and watch a show or scroll endlessly

Yesss

This happened to me before my psychotic episode. I believe it was one of the first signs of my psychosis. Not saying you have psychosis but that’s what it was for me. Very scary to experience. I hope that you can find a way to manage this symptom and get some good sleep.

This is why i have OCD and got diagnosed

Yes 😭

Mine probably is too

Yes. I had this happen to a dear family friend (she was only 53) and I didn’t sleep for a week. Every time I went to go to bed I had to tell my partner I love you and it terrified me for a while. Overtook any other themes I had. But I had to sleep, it’s vital to my health (always has been important to me and my recovery). So it became its own exposure and I had to resist the compulsions like telling my partner I love them before bed. It’s hard and I don’t wish it on anyone, especially while dealing with the grief of losing a friend.

Yess. I have OME, (I think that’s what it was) and it causes clicking, and/or a heavy feeling in the head. Because of this clicking sound I’d hear sometimes, I would stick my fingers in my ear and thought I found a bump. (Literally just the shape of the ear canal.) but I literally thought I had a tumor in there. I would lay away, so anxious about it, and because I was so anxious about it, I could felt the anxiety in my chest, which caused me to believe I had something wrong my heart. I would lay away, listening to my heartbeat, believing any second it would just stop. Eventually it had gotten so bad I just had a attack of some kind since I wasn’t sleeping, and the anxiety was just getting worse.