Posted by Tamar on September 20, 2005, at 5:56:06
In reply to I don't want to go to bed, posted by Angela2 on September 19, 2005, at 19:49:44
> Becuase you know what comes after going to bed. WORK. Goodnight babblers of babble land. I am going to be strong and go to work tomorrow.
Yeah, I do that sometimes… I stay up late because I don’t want to go to bed, because I know the next thing that happens will be work and I feel very anxious setting foot in the place.
One thing I’ve tried that’s really helped is this: I get up a bit earlier (ouch!) and spend some time (half an hour maybe) writing down how I feel and the thoughts that relate to it, and then I try to challenge them. So for example I might write, ‘I feel so anxious. I don’t want to go. I’m afraid I’ll get angry, I’m afraid I’ll fail, I’m afraid I’ll make mistakes. I don’t want to see anyone because I’m sure people think I’m awful and incompetent. But yesterday X said to me that he thought my report was good and Y said she would support me in this other thing. So there are people who think I’m not completely useless. And I thought my classes went well yesterday…’
And so on. And after I get it all out of my head and onto the paper I feel a bit more able to force myself to go.
I don’t know if something similar would work for you; do you think it’s worth trying?
Tamar
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