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Does anyone know of any relationship between a possible sleep disorder and ocd??

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Does anyone know of any relationship between a possible sleep disorder and ocd??

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I found this article that I found interesting and hopeful


The good news: Sleep apnea is easy to treat and can alleviate symptoms masquerading as Alzheimer's, ADD/ADHD and depression.

When there's not enough snooze, you lose

Treating sleep apnea with breathing device is easy and life-saving

Sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea typically snore yet never really sleep.

The snoring is actually the sound of airway blockage. Often they jerk and sound like they are choking. Their brains are always on red alert to keep their bodies from going too long without air.

Since their brains can wake up as many as 90 times an hour, their daytime grogginess can give way to accidents while driving or operating machinery.

Without rest and enough oxygen, the brain starves. Memory plummets, with symptoms that seem to indicate Alzheimer's and dementia. Attention is scattered. The cardiopulmonary (heart and vascular) system is taxed into hypertension, finally giving way to congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia (irregular beating), stroke or sudden death.

Since so many facets of a person's life are affected, doctors often overlook a person's sleep when diagnosing a problem, causing, for example, many children to endure severe drug therapy for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when they actually are deprived of restful sleep.

"Sleep apnea is very common. It is very dangerous. But it is easily diagnosed and treatable," explains neurologist Dr. Larry Salberg, MD, a board-certified sleep specialist at Illiana Institute of Sleep Disorders in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Merrillville</st1:City> and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Munster</st1:place></st1:State>. "You don't have to be overweight to have it. It often runs in families, so there's definitely a genetic component. In children it's usually due to large tonsils and adenoids, as well as abnormalities of the face.

"Sleep deprivation makes adults sleepy but it makes kids hyper," Salberg continues. "Up to 38 percent of children who are on stimulant medication for ADD/ADHD do not have ADD/ADHD. They have sleep deprivation."

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a sleep disorder can DEFINITLEY be caused by OCD

... I was diagnosed with OCD about 5 months ago.....

I had always had reoccuring thoughts about my heart and breathing since I was 15 or 16 years old
I just jthought it was some random thing I did and it was somewhat normal and I just went along with it thinking it was just a "phase"

Evenutally I started having touble sleeping... One night I just didn't "normally" fall asleep like every other night.

Most people wouldn't even take this into account they would just let it go and not think about it.

I obsessed about it. I would have irrational thoughts about never falling asleep again and how I was not normal and I was going insane. I had myself awake for months and months. Three hours here, two hours there, most times nights of no sleep at all.

I saw a phsycologist and I discussesd my problem with him. He diagnosed with me OCD and just told me to "stay awake." I couldn't even fatham that!!!

Why would I want to saty awake when my problem was just wanting to sleep???

Well then I started think RATIONALLY.... it is IMPOSSIBLE to just "go to sleep"...
you cannot force yourself to sleep

What worked best for me is seperating the difference in my thoughts
I invision what my SUBCONCIOUS mind is doing which is my OCD....
then I think how irrational it all is
YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF EVERY THOUGHT AND EVERY REACTION
YOUR MIND REACTS TO WHAT YOU PUT THERE
sooo then I just started realizing when I'd lay there and close my eyes that thinking about falling sleep is going to keep me awake...
controlling the irrational n REALIZING its irrational and to just let yourself go and relax puts me right to sleep every night...




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Does anyone know of any relationship between a possible sleep disorder and ocd??