Anxiety and stress are affecting more and more of us as our daily lives become more frantic and and our “to do” lists seem to grow ever longer. The amount of stress we are under determines how we react to life’s everyday hassles and can even impact on our sleep.
When you lay down at night, it seems like all your worries, that you didn’t have time to deal with during the day, come crowding into your mind. The busier you are during the day, the less time you have to think about the things that concern you. When you finally go to bed and try to relax, it seems to act as a signal for those anxious thoughts to start.
This is where many people throw up their hands in surrender and reach for their sleeping pills. This may seem like the easy answer at the time, especially when you have to get up in the morning to go to work. But sleeping pills are addictive and don’t actually give you a great quality of sleep. They can also have a hangover effect the next day, causing drowsiness and lethargy.
A better solution would be to treat the stress and anxiety itself and let the insomnia take care of itself. You will find that as you relax more easily, sleep will come more naturally. The trick is, of course, to find a way to ease your stress and relax easily. Yes, there are drugs for this, they come with their own set of problems and can have unpleasant withdrawal symptoms if you wish to stop taking them.
So what’s the answer to the stress in our lives? We have to learn to relax. This can be done by practising relaxation techniques, or in severe cases of stress and anxiety, some type of Cognitive Behavior Therapy may be useful.
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