[bipal24]

hi there i’m new here. i found all the content really helpful as it made me aware that anxiety is may main factor for having insomnia.

too give uou a bir of context. i’ve had an ectopic pregnancy last year as we’ve been trying to have a baby. my sleep problems developed in april (the months before i started to take vitamins and did lots of testing to see why this happened before starting again). april added a bit of stress from work and since then i couldn’t sleep properly, i developed anxiety (that it would never get away, that this is not healthy, that i can’t get pregnant like that etc.) i understand the theory but find it hard to challence/overthrow those thoughts? anybody has suggestions how to approach this? die have the feeling i have to convince myself deep inside that my thoughts arent true but i’ve no idea how to do this..

Thanks in advance for reading!

[Martin Reed]

Hello @bipal24! and welcome to the forum! I am sorry to hear of your ectopic pregnancy and the sleep issues and the anxiety that you have also been experiencing.

All the thoughts and feelings you shared are valid and understandable — and they come from your brain doing its job of looking out for you. Since that is your brain’s main job, it’s probably not going to back down if you attempt to challenge or overthrow or fight or avoid the thoughts and feelings it’s generating.

An approach of resistance, fighting, or avoiding is understandable and it can often make things more difficult as you find yourself drawn into an endless battle with your mind.

If your experience tells you that your brain is going to generate whatever thoughts and feelings it chooses to generate (good, bad, nice, hard, helpful, unhelpful, accurate, inaccurate, constructive, unconstructive, etc) then perhaps a more workable approach might involve acknowledging whatever thoughts and feelings you notice and allowing them to come and go as they choose — rather than getting pulled into a battle with them?

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