Lying awake replaying a tense conversation or dreading tomorrow’s meeting is common. In this piece, reporter Erica Sweeney explains why worries get loud after dark. Pulling information from Stanford, Stony Brook, Georgetown and the University of Arizona, she highlights how fewer distractions and weaker emotional control at night let anxious thoughts take over. Next, anxiety and poor sleep take over. She offers practical fixes to make these times easier and less frequent.
Source: The Washington Post, October 19, 2026. Link. Solomon (a psychologist with the Stanford University School of Medicine) recommended spending five or 10 minutes writing down what’s on your mind that day and listing what you can and can’t control about it. If bothersome thoughts do come up later in the evening, she said to remind yourself that you will reexamine them tomorrow.
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