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When bedtime routines become OCD prisons

I spent two hours arranging items on my nightstand before bed and I am exhausted but cannot sleep unless everything is perfect.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transition to rest has been colonized by the demand for perfect order, turning the bedroom into another arena for compulsive control.

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