425am and I've been up since midnight. Cant seem to stop all the racing thoughts. Some of the thoughts concern my mistake I made yesterday and I'm still worrying a lot if I will get in trouble. I hate spending so much time thinking and worrying about something like this but thats what I do. The rest of my morning has been filled with just random thoughts. I tried some relaxation techniques and it helped but I just couldn't fall back to sleep. This sucks! I'm not looking forward to work.
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Pagan, I\'m sorry you lost sleep over this. Please don\'t feel like you\'re alone in this....I do the same thing! Work stress sends me over the edge, especially if it involves a feeling that my mistake effects too much. When I get this way, my old therapist would help me diagram the problem. Draw a little chart and take each thought and rationalize it. At the end of the diagram my mistake did not effect things as deeply as I was convincing myself it was. Hope to hear from you soon on how things are going at work. Know that we are here to support you and lean on us!!!
I do the same thing when I am worrying about a mistake I made. It makes me feel physically ill. I\'m sorry that it\'s such a tricky thing to get control over, and it\'s making you lose sleep.... sleep is so important. I hope that everything worked out okay.. ((hugs))