[Fifi]

I go to sleep quite quickly but after 2 hours I am awake,I can’t stop thinking that I want to go straight back to sleep. Then the thought comes into my head that I’m not going to sleep.i toss and turn exhausted and want to sleep so much.i think about it all day.i start dreading everything that I have to do.i feel sad and hopeless.the more I think I should not be getting stressed about it the more I do.i can sleep in front of the TV.but I don’t want to turn it on.i want to be able to gey back to sleep even for half an hour..its driving me crazy. I feel like I look ill I keep looking at myself and am being horrible to myself saying I’m causing all of this,watching my family sleep I feel like something is wrong with me. I can’t cope anymore.im scared of sleeping but I want to sleep I’m loosing my mind x

[Martin Reed]

I wonder if this is the key insight in your post, Fifi: I can’t stop thinking

Thoughts can be really difficult and unhelpful and distracting — and they show up whether we want them to or not. The more we try to fight or avoid them, the more likely we are to get tangled up in an endless and exhausting struggle with them. And that struggle makes everything more difficult, just as you described.

Perhaps moving away from struggling with the thoughts your mind generates as it does its job of looking out for you might help to make things a little bit less difficult? If nothing else, you might free up some energy that would otherwise be used in that tug of war with your mind — a tug of war that only ever has one winner (your mind).

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