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Racing thoughts are the worst. They really get intense for me in the AM, right after waking up. If I don't snap out of it, I can spend hours in bed starring into space. I lose time this way too.
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Guided meditation for racing thoughts. There are some on YouTube.
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Practicing mindfulness can help a lot here. I prefer doing a guided version to help me out
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I force myself to read a book.
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The last several weeks I’ve listened to guided meditations almost all night long. That or the music on the calm app. I’ll fall asleep for a bit and then wake back up and I just put another meditation back on. I also took Xanax at 2:45 am last night because it was ridiculous
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Being on prescribed anxiety meds (SSRI) is the only thing that ever helped me.
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I wasn’t prescribed them for the sleeping difficulties, but I found that once I took the meds, my sleeping issues went away
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on spotify there's a podcast called sleep with me it's a gibberish story so you can have something to pay attention to with out getting so invested you can't fall asleep
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