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I'm f'ed as are probably a lot of people who have anxiety or have ideas that wake them up. How the heck is a person meant to stop that? :(

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A simple realization helped me to get out of the loop of night thoughts a lot quicker:

At night your reasoning abilty is massively impaired by melatonin. Thats why your thoughts keep going in circles and one does not find the most obvious solutions for a problem. There is only one thing to do. Let it go. You are at your worst, you're not supposed to reason right now.

This simple fact fixed crushing night thoughts for me and a friend of mine.

I can't simply put down the thought, even though it is often mostly circular, until I can resolve it. I can stop thinking about it, but then I'll just lie there awake and many hours pass :(

Meditation?

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