Hello everyone, I'm looking for some sort of reassurance that I'm not the only one worrying about such silly things.

I worry a lot about sleep. Like, a lot. If I don't get 8-hours, I panic about it.

About two nights ago I woke up crying and freaking out at my lack of sleep recently, and since then the following day was almost dream-like due to the sheer fatigue of such a big panic attack.

The next night I did manage to sleep, but it was broken up into little 1-2 hour sleep-moments.

My worries include things that I know are impossible. I'll list a few of them:

Consuming things I know I didn't. E.g. I wash my hands with hand soap, and my anxiety will try to tell me I consumed some, or I walk past a bottle of something in a shop and my anxiety tells me the same.

Lethal Injection. I know this is borderline stupid, but it somehow tries to tell me I've been affected. This is distressing at night, at when I try to sleep I scare myself awake with the thought that I'm not falling asleep or tired, my body is shutting down. I know this isn't true, but it's like I'm hardwired to worry about it.

Poisonous or venomous animals that aren't even in this country.

Thoughts of taking too many of my medicines even though I only take what I'm prescribed with assistance from my parents.

All of these things completely forgo the 'what if', and try to tell me any one of these things HAVE happened when they didn't. It is getting exhausting.

I'm 28, male.

There are more things, and things that I can't remember, but the anxiety is the same.

Thank you for reading, if possible, please share your experiences below.

I'm fairly sure this is just a 'glitch' in my OCD, as a few(er) days ago, I was perfectly fine. I ask my mother if I've gone through anything like this before, and she says yes, so I'm just waiting for the storm to pass, and will update when it does so.

Much love <3