OCD compulsions in dreams

[Anonanon]

Hi everyone

I am posting here again since new symptoms have arose. 

I just started my treatment with psychiatrist and am on SSRI and sleep inducer. But with this medication i am suffering from insomnia. I go to sleep at 10 and wake up around 3:30. After that , I try a lot to sleep but the sleep is not REM and it is just an unconscious state. I wake up agin and again.

This is where my hell starts. I dont know why, i start thinking about all the obsessions i had in the day and unconsciously start doing my compulsions. I dont remember how it starts, i just remember mentally or physically reviewing them and suddenly fighting them. All this happens in a sub conscious state. Even in my dreams i am fighting. This is getting really hard day by day. I assumed my symptoms would settle down after medication but this first week is going like hell.

Can anyone relate or guide me on this subject.

Please help.

 

 

 

[thistooshallpass1996]

When did you start the medication? 

Every medication I’ve tried makes things worse before it gets better, so just try to stick with it and follow your doctors advice  

[Anonanon]

I started it just 4 days back. Fluvoxamine and etilaam. But my symptoms got worse. I cannot sleep properly, whole day seems depressing. Doctor is saying that it will take few weeks. But is getting really hard.