I know that I am stressed out, because it's 12:35 am here, and I am wide awake, yet exhausted. I can't get my mind to shut off. I haven't felt this way in years. In my old job, I was constantly so stressed out that I had what I called "middle of the night insomnia": if awakened by anything, I couldn't fall back asleep. After I left the job, I started sleeping, and I realized the problem was external.
So, hello my old friend, anxiety. I know exactly why I am awake. I have three projects at work that are pressing down on me, squeezing the air out of the room. I just need to finish them. I need to stop letting the great be the enemy of the good. So I can sleep again, if nothing else.
How do you calm down and sleep when your mind won't stop?
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I make Josh rub my back. Sometimes I get up and read or write. The only thing I don't do it get on a screen or watch anything -- that just gets me more wound up.
I write lists before I go to bed. Or I think of something else that is mundane but makes me concentrate - and sometimes that helps me fall asleep. I have been known to go to sleep reciting Spanish verbs!
I hope you got to sleep eventually.
I'm with Lolli that I know not to turn on a screen (not that I always heed that).
And I'm with Mali that sometimes writing down what I'm anxious about gets it out of my head.
Also, I breathe and count. In 8, out 8.
I'm not always successful.
I hope things go well with your projects.
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