True @Former-Member . Knowing there's hope doesn't make the nights of worrying any faster, However, worrying won't make the night go faster either!
One thing I have found helpful is that just before bed, I write down everything I am worried about on a piece of paper - that is my 'worry time'. Then, I put that paper aside and go to sleep because I know in the morning, the paper will still be there with all my worries!
What happens is that in the evenings, our brains have developed to over-think in the evenings. This is part of evolution where tribal people needed to 'worry' in order to stay alive e.g. worry that there was a predator, or worry there was an enemy. The evenings was when they had to be most alert.
Our modern-day mind has carried this over so that we also worry most in the evening.
By you writing worries down during your dedicated 'worry time', you'll know that in the morning, you'll have a different view about what has been troubling you. It doesn't mean the worries disappear. It more means that that worry in the even won't turn to a bigger worry which then turns to a bigger worry so that by midnight, you're worrying about the whole world!
Hope I'm making sense.
Hugs, tyme
