My husband likely suffers from somatic ocd (not professionally diagnosed) and sleep anxiety (fear of not getting a good sleep).
His compulsive rituals becomes heavier around sleep prep time. Mostly he handles them by keeping them at a certain level. But sometimes they take over completely and prevent him from getting into bed and that results in him having panic attacks. I want to comfort him but he tells me to keep sleeping, and if I leave him alone with it for too long, he complains about me not comforting him.
Result is, both of us having broken sleep and arguing in the middle of the night.
This situation doesn't happen so often but when it happens, it affects my mood very badly.(Maybe beacuse I suffer from a different type of OCDs too, but that is not the subject of this post.) I really don't know how to approach these situations.
Is there anyone experiencing anything similar? I need some advices.