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1 year ago · 1 · Stress, +3


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I need sleep but I don’t want to sleep. This is how I feel often. I walk around my house at night double checking everything or as my family calls it my “Security checks”. I might go on my phone and than feel really sick and nauseous of the screen and then try to force myself to sleep. That’s when I start thinking and thinking and overthinking. Getting really stressed and frightened. I get annoyed and agitated on days I get too little sleep and then too much. Only on rare occasions do I get a good sleep, usually on days I am really good at self control on bad habits like being on my phone too long..

My body tells me when I have stayed up far too long or been on my phone way too long. The back of my head starts hurting a lot. A lot of my dreams make me feel exhausted, maybe because I have a lot of dreams where I have a lot of control in my actions.

I need advice on being less stressed I guess or at self control to help me sleep.

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  • Novni Guest · 1 year ago

    Do all of your thinking in the living room before you go to your bedroom. When you are ready for bed play relaxation music and listen to it while lie down, breathe deeply, and slowly relax yourself all over. Then imagine that you are floating on a cloud over luscious green valleys and white topped mountains with not a care in the world. On the cloud you are warm, comfortable, and relaxed. Every time an outside thought comes into your head push it away. Do this until you fall asleep and maybe you won't have another of those dreams and you will wake up refreshed.

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