[Kjonestx]

My biggest challenge is sleeping when anxious and depressed.
Work influences the amount of anxiety/depression I experience.
So far, the most helpful tip is that I cannot force Sleep. Forcing sleep does the opposite, keeps me awake.
I’m trusting Matt that not sleeping isn’t going to harm me although it feels like it is.
My next biggest fear is health anxiety. I just want to be healthy.

[hiker]

HI Kjonestx, well, the message I was typing to you sort of vanished, so let’s try again….

I used to think that we are at the mercy of whatever thought pops into our heads. I learned that we can hang back a bit and observe our thoughts, as if they are floating by on the river, rather than falling into the river and getting tossed about. And not to put so much stock in feelings, which I know seems counter-intuitive: as you say, “it feels like it is,” i.e. that insomnia is going to harm me.

1. I’m having the thought that I will never get over this; or
2. I will never get over this.

There is a huge difference between 1 and 2, granted it can be hard to think straight and see it when you are really hammered from not sleeping. Maybe come back to it later…..

Take care, you are not alone.

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