[lisatwjones]

Thank you for replying to me. The whole idea of compulsions is that they’re incessant, irresistible, and hard to discontinue. I was just writing to ask if anyone else experienced something like what I’ve gone through so that I wouldn’t feel alone in it. I literally would count down to the final minutes of being in bed because of the anxiety associated with getting up. I would also leave my bedroom, go to the futon in my living room and often end up napping, which defeated the purpose of getting up.

However, recently I came up with something of a solution. I decided to set an alarm, and to keep my phone in a separate room, so I can’t check it, and also so I would HAVE TO get out of bed to turn it off. So now I also get up and stay up. I have almost completely stopped trying to estimate in my mind what time it, and have instructed myself to “just wait on the alarm.” The only thing that’s kind of gone wrong is that I’ve been waking up before it goes off.

This process is very new to me and I was worried that somehow I might fall back into my old habit. So I was asking if anyone else goes through the same thing.

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