I become manic like this and unable to control my thoughts when I’m overtired and have pushed myself too hard in a day or over some period of time. Also happens when I stay up later than normal. I think it happens to a lot of people and they just struggle to notice it. We’re probably best off just sleeping at the exact same time each day and that fixes the brain into a routine of calming down at bedtime
I used to be too exhausted from work to sleep properly. Like, “me time” starts at 9:30, I don’t even have time to sit down or watch anything or play a game. My mind rebelled against sleeping. So I would play games for 3 hours. IMO about 3 hours per day for personal time is the minimum. But I wouldn’t get enough sleep like that.
The long term fix was to get a situation where I don’t have to work from 07:00 to 21:30 continuously (in this case for clarity I’m classifying travel time, cooking, eating, chores, parenting, etc, as work)
This sounds like over-tiredness honestly
In the sense that I’m pushing myself too hard physically and that prevents me from sleeping?
I become manic like this and unable to control my thoughts when I’m overtired and have pushed myself too hard in a day or over some period of time. Also happens when I stay up later than normal. I think it happens to a lot of people and they just struggle to notice it. We’re probably best off just sleeping at the exact same time each day and that fixes the brain into a routine of calming down at bedtime
I used to be too exhausted from work to sleep properly. Like, “me time” starts at 9:30, I don’t even have time to sit down or watch anything or play a game. My mind rebelled against sleeping. So I would play games for 3 hours. IMO about 3 hours per day for personal time is the minimum. But I wouldn’t get enough sleep like that.
The long term fix was to get a situation where I don’t have to work from 07:00 to 21:30 continuously (in this case for clarity I’m classifying travel time, cooking, eating, chores, parenting, etc, as work)