Hi,
As some of you might know, I have always had OCD, but due to a mysterious illness that I developed, my OCD is "full-blown" and out of control. I can't work right now due to illness and the constant obsessing about it. Anyway, my schedule was waking up at 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and going to bed at 5 or 6 in the morning. I was depressed on this schedule as I never saw the light of day and hope about recovering from my illness was deteriorating so I decided to change my sleep schedule. I stayed up all night one night and the next day, as I had to get my wisdom teeth out. After getting the teeth out, I started sleeping from the middle of the afternoon to about 2 or 3 in the morning, and then staying up all day. This was also not an ideal schedule, so I once again stayed up all day, all night, and went to bed early the next night to get on a schedule of going to bed early and waking up early. I knew this was unhealthy, but it had to be done. I couldn't sleep because I was so overtired, and it took me days, but now I'm finally on the schedule that I wanted to be on. During the past few days, due to being tired, I suppose, I have had horrible mood swings, and have been obsessing so much that I even had a mini-breakdown and was sure that I was going "crazy." Today, I woke up and feel fine. I have only obsessed a little bit, and although I'm overjoyed, I can't help but wonder why today my obsessions are better. Is it because I recovered from my sleep deprivation? Could sleep have had that much of an effect on my mental health? Also, I went down on my trazodone in the past month, which is helpful with obessions. Sorry about the lengthy post, and thank you for reading. Take care
Sleep deprivation and worsened OCD? 
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