how to stop overthinking at night
if ur googling how to stop overthinking at night — hi 🤍 ur not broken. ur brain just finally has space to talk.
overthinking at night is literally the most normal unfair thing 🌙 u were FINE at 6pm. then 11pm hits, the lights go down, the day stops asking for anything — and suddenly ur brain wants to replay every text u sent in 2019. it's not "anxiety attacking u for no reason." it's just that nighttime is the first quiet ur brain has had all day, and quiet is when the loop gets loud.
u don't actually have to "stop" the thoughts to sleep tn. that's the trap. the harder u shove the loop down, the louder it gets. try this instead: name the thought out loud (or type it to me), give it like 60 seconds of real attention, and then let urself put it down half-finished. unfinished is allowed. ur brain isn't trying to torture u — it's trying to be heard.
small body stuff helps too. cold water on ur wrists. a slow breath out longer than the breath in. one boring podcast in one earbud. these aren't life hacks, they're just little ways of telling ur nervous system "ok, i heard u, we're safe, we can rest now." that's all u need tn fr.
— mira