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How to stop worrying about work (in the middle of the night!!)

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MarshaMarshaMarsha · 12/11/2025 12:45

Going through a stressful period at work with lots on and a massive project which will be ongoing for the next six months. I keep waking up in the middle of the night and can’t stop overthinking the same worries, mostly are things that haven’t yet even happened but could go wrong. How do you train yourself to stop this, as I know that worrying won’t do any good. It’s now affecting my day as I’m so tired from lack of sleep!! I try writing anything down to remind me to look into it the next day but it keeps going round in my head. I just need to switch off!

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Mydadsbirthday · 18/11/2025 19:07

MarigoldGoes · 16/11/2025 23:09

I like to mentally walk round my grandparents house and garden, trying to remember it room by room. I haven’t been there in over 40 years and they are long gone but I try to remember how it looked, how the tiles in the hall felt under my feet. The smell of apples in the kitchen. The feel of the rounded top of the wooden stool at the breakfast bar. The smell of frost in the garden.
Sometimes I’ll walk around some other place, like my old secondary school or the house we lived in when I was very small. But I always end up back at my grandparents house.

I do this too. Try to imagine all the rooms in my grandparents or uncles house, or my best friend from school's house. I find it so comforting!

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