Every night around 1am I replay conversations from years ago. I've tried the phone-out-of-the-room thing. What actually worked for you long term, not just for a week?
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Ten years of 1am replays. I'd argue with people from 2013 in my head until 3.
A written 'parking list' at 9pm — every open loop on paper, so my brain stopped rehearsing them for safekeeping. Then a fixed wake time, even after bad nights. That's the one nobody wants to hear.
Getting out of bed after 20 minutes awake feels insane and it is the single thing that broke the cycle.
Name the thought out loud in one sentence. 'I'm worried I embarrassed myself.' Said aloud it loses about 40% of its size. Sounds silly, worked for me for two years now.
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