What do you do when you can not get you mind to stop thinking so you can sleep?
By floramwaters
@floramwaters (1595)
United States
November 20, 2006 12:48pm CST
It was up too 4am tring so hard to stop stessing and worring. I lay down and the couch and was watching some tv to try and take my mind off of my problem. The last tme I saw was 4am and then my husband wake me up at 5:30am when he was getting ready for work. how do you handle these nights?
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
20 Nov 06
Play a meditation cd.
If that doesn't work, I get up and write it down in my journal. Then it gets it out of my head and onto paper.
That seems to help me.
If all else fails, I listen to a AM radio talk show. Either it gets my mind off of what I am thinking so I can sleep, or it bores me to sleep. LOL
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@floramwaters (1595)
• United States
20 Nov 06
I had to laugh at the second half of the comment thank you I really needed that laugh
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@nannacroc (4049)
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20 Nov 06
I have found that if I write down what's going on in my head it often helps. After doing that I try to get involved in a book so I will be thinking of the story and not the problem before I go to sleep.
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@floramwaters (1595)
• United States
20 Nov 06
I turned on the tv all my biiks were in the room where my husband was sleeping and I did not want to wake him up
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@floramwaters (1595)
• United States
20 Nov 06
counting sheep? Another simple one that I did not even think about
@melanie652 (2524)
• United States
20 Nov 06
Figure out what is bothering me so badly and do the best I can to fix the problem. Sometimes I talk to my husband or a friend, that helps too. Other times I take something to help me sleep. Problems look bigger and worse than they are when you're tired. Exercise or just doing something physical (like cleaning house or working outside) to keep myself busy help too. Sometimes that's when I do my best thinking and can sort through the problem and find my answer. Hope you sleep well tonight. :)
@floramwaters (1595)
• United States
20 Nov 06
Part of my problem is that I would work though the issue and then when I would go lay down and then my mind would start races. THen I would get back up and this just went on and on. You are right the problem was so small and almost stupiod to loss sleep over. I diffently will be going to bed early tonight
@chelutzu31 (404)
• Romania
20 Nov 06
I remember when I was 7...I couldn't sleep because I was thinking too much to smth and my mother said to me a poem...and I could sleep
@EagleEyes (646)
• United States
20 Nov 06
You could try taking some Tylenol pm, I take 2 like 1 hour before I go to bed for the night, I go in and watch tv until I become tired enough to fall asleep. Sometimes our minds race so much, it is hard to sleep, but the Tylenol PM has helped me, you could try it.
@floramwaters (1595)
• United States
20 Nov 06
That is a good idea I did not think about taken anything. And we have it seating in the bathroom.
