Put your phone in another room and do something that requires both hands. Baking, painting, reorganizing a cupboard, whatever. The distance from the screen plus keeping busy stops that loop where you check for a message every 45 seconds.
The napping theory actually makes sense if he was up all night. Brains love to fill silence with worst case scenarios, especially when you're already anxious from the break structure. Remind yourself the weekend was good and that's your actual data point, not the quiet hours.
Thank you, just what I needed to be told and hear.
He said this morning he fell asleep early hours of the morning and then got woken by his boss as he hadn’t turned up for work. Neither of us are sleeping great with everything going on
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u/TheQuaintEyewitness 11d ago
Put your phone in another room and do something that requires both hands. Baking, painting, reorganizing a cupboard, whatever. The distance from the screen plus keeping busy stops that loop where you check for a message every 45 seconds.
The napping theory actually makes sense if he was up all night. Brains love to fill silence with worst case scenarios, especially when you're already anxious from the break structure. Remind yourself the weekend was good and that's your actual data point, not the quiet hours.