Hello I suffer of social anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.
This night I didn't sleep so comfy and in the morning I realized that intrusive toughts and obsessions they were calmed down.
One of the manifestation of ODC is the glutammate in an area of the brain along the lack of serotonin.
My question is: how can one night sleep deprivation (I have only slept 4 hours) improve the ODC simptoms?
I have red that after one night not going into REM the glutammate production should raise up. which it would be theoretically worse for ODC...