Are Diapers the New Weighted Blanket?

[Toddler Pampers]

A weighted blanket works to overcome anxiety by applying a gentle pressure, which feels soothing to many people.  It’s this persistent, good feeling, from a pleasant sensation, that distracts the mind.  Obviously, sleeping with a weighted blanket might lead to one waking up free of anxiety, for their mind having been subjected to cleansing for basically a third of the time.

A calm start to the day can’t be overstated.  For me, at least, feeling inadequate means that each day is a test of my worth, such that my anxiety is greatest to start, dissipating as the day moves along and things get done.

I believe that being diapered for bed is having the same effect on me as a weighted blanket, because I’ve begun waking up anxiety free, which means that there’s a very good chance I will stay that way.  It’s also been very important, I believe, to be able to openly wear diapers in front of my wife, because, if being diapered overnight is therapeutic, why should I have to hide what I’m doing?

I’m not going to sugarcoat it:  along with the physical sensation, I’m leveraging my sense that babies, while they may be unhappy much of the time, don’t have anxiety.  In a word, I admit to pretending I’m a baby, which wearing a very babyish diaper makes possible, even easy.

As I say, I am waking up completely calm, in which case, my goal is achieved.  It might be that I need to wear a diaper, to defeat anxiety, all day as well.  Fortunately, that’s not the case, on account of pants not fitting and needing to go places.  Moreover, the more I wear a diaper, the less different it feels, so the less it distracts my mind.  Most of the time, I’m an adult, not a baby, in which case there’s no pretending, and no benefit.  But overnight, there’s absolutely no reason you have to be an adult.  It’s the perfect time to be that baby, by wearing a diaper, which has all the properties of a weighted blanket as well, come to realize!

My other weighted blanket is listening to the sound of water, ocean waves, in particular.  Again, the effect is to completely fill the mind with something benign, whose purpose is to distract.  Obviously, the more pleasant the sensation, the better it distracts.  For me, the pressure of a bulky, securely fastened diaper feels much better than a weighted blanket, which, of course, doesn’t lend itself at all to the other prong of my attack:  pretending I’m a baby.

 

[drynot]

You might have a good point.  I do know that I feel much less anxiety and calmer when I'm diapered up.  It's one of the best things about wearing diapers IMO....

[DailyDi]

Accurate analogy for me!

[ValentinesStuff]

I hope not, weighted blankets make me extremely uncomfortable, feel claustrophobic, increase my pain level, and overall feel worse. I'd rather shiver in my sleep.

[Toddler Pampers]

1 hour ago, ValentinesStuff said:

I hope not, weighted blankets make me extremely uncomfortable, feel claustrophobic, increase my pain level, and overall feel worse. I'd rather shiver in my sleep.

They don’t work for me either.  But the principle on which they work does:  snug, well protected, feels good, good feeling filling the conscious.  Blankets are just so much more mainstream!  But when you already like wearing diapers, you’ll be even more easily pleasantly distracted.

Again, I’m not, in the least way, incontinent, but I’m diapered for bed every night, with few exceptions.  It’s all about replacing negativity with good feeling, indirectly, with an ongoing distraction in the form of a pleasant physical sensation, as well as directly, by pretending to be a baby, which wearing a bulky, IOW babyish, diaper to bed does for me.

[Little Sherri]

Hmmmm... product idea... Weighted Diapers, anyone?

[ValentinesStuff]

36 minutes ago, Little Sherri said:

Hmmmm... product idea... Weighted Diapers, anyone?

My regular diapers get weighted after wearing for a bit.

[Crinklz Kat]

Can't necessarily say that applies to me with wearing diapers --- but I would say it does apply to sleeping with plushies.  I find that I need to have something against me during the night or I feel incomplete.  I started it many years ago when I was starting to have stress-induced nightmares thanks to my previous job (and many were about my own death).  
 

 

[Dubious]

Never tried weighted blanket, so I can't compare it with diapers.

But while wearing diapers I never get stressed and I never get angry. 

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A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute. 

My normal resting heart rate is 50 BPM, and I'm not fit at all.
Could be the same without diapers, but I doubt it.  

[zzyzx]

6 hours ago, Crinklz Kat said:

Can't necessarily say that applies to me with wearing diapers --- but I would say it does apply to sleeping with plushies.  I find that I need to have something against me during the night or I feel incomplete.

@Crinklz Kat:  Why am I not surprised at this for you....  <grin>

[warpiper]

I had a cheap sand filled weighted blanket that was 15 lbs from Walmart, and didn't really like it. I convinced the wife to get me a Bearaby weighted blanket at 25 lbs for father's day, and I haven't had better sleep in years since I started using it. I gave away the cheap blanket. 

[Pelusban]

7 hours ago, Crinklz Kat said:

Can't necessarily say that applies to me with wearing diapers --- but I would say it does apply to sleeping with plushies.  I find that I need to have something against me during the night or I feel incomplete.  I started it many years ago when I was starting to have stress-induced nightmares thanks to my previous job (and many were about my own death).  
 

 

What about weighted plushies?

[ValentinesStuff]

52 minutes ago, Pelusban said:

What about weighted plushies?

Those are called puppies and kitties.

[Albert-1701]

Here in Las Vegas in the summer you do not want any blanket, especially a heavy weighted one. It is usually at least in the 90°s F. (32°C for those of you in Canada). In fact to beat the heat i sleep completely nude. It does get cold in the winter here. However, even then I still sleep in the nude. I have done this since I was about 12 years of age. I am not 76½. I will continue doing this until the day I die. Maybe, if I know I am dieing I will ask that I also be burried in the nude. Of course, even then I will at least have a cover of some sort over my body. After all we all came into this World nude, why not go out of this World nude?

 

Albert

me-1701@proton.me

🙂

[rusty pins]

13 hours ago, ValentinesStuff said:

My regular diapers get weighted after wearing for a bit.

I was going to say that, and my "weighted" diapers sure don't feel soothing to me.  While I like a wet, soaked and sagging diaper as much as the next person, a weighted diaper just tells me it's past time to change.  Yeah, I know the topic is not about "weighted" diapers but weighted blankets and I was being facetious here, but I never like having heavy blankets or anything slightly constrictive over me.  That would make me more uncomfortable, not being able to move around freely, like I was pinned down.  I have to be free to move and toss a blanket and sheet off of me and not feel constricted at all.

[Toddler Pampers]

7 hours ago, rusty pins said:

I was going to say that, and my "weighted" diapers sure don't feel soothing to me.  While I like a wet, soaked and sagging diaper as much as the next person, a weighted diaper just tells me it's past time to change.  Yeah, I know the topic is not about "weighted" diapers but weighted blankets and I was being facetious here, but I never like having heavy blankets or anything slightly constrictive over me.  That would make me more uncomfortable, not being able to move around freely, like I was pinned down.  I have to be free to move and toss a blanket and sheet off of me and not feel constricted at all.

Interesting.  I’ll speculate that you are just a DL.  I’m both, baby and fetishist, and would say that the sensation of a weighted blanket, or my bulky Pamper, tight-fitting and firmly secured, lends itself to feeling secure.  It’s possible also that it’s not what you expect to feel, and comes across as merely a pleasant distraction.  My underwear, for example, feels like nothing compared to what it feels like to be diapered!  Similarly, a weighted blanket isn’t what’s expected either.

[Crinklz Kat]

17 hours ago, zzyzx said:

@Crinklz Kat:  Why am I not surprised at this for you....  <grin>

15 hours ago, Pelusban said:

What about weighted plushies?

Well.... Plushlife talks about "bed gravity" when it comes to the weight of their plushies.   They don't have the data on the web site, but I seem to recall the snow leopard being about 20 pounds.    But, I don't actually want something on top of me - I've tried that and can't say it did anything for me.