How do you deal with stress before going to sleep?

How do you deal with stress before going to sleep?

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In terms of handling stress, one really should identify what's the cause of the stress and try to manage that and then sleep itself will follow. What one should really avoid is the notion that because one is not sleeping properly, one's going to get worse during the day and then that can feed into the stress. That anxiety about not sleeping becomes the bigger problem. So the best thing to do is always to focus on what's causing the stress and trying to deal with that. If one can't deal with it in real terms, at least mentally deal with it so whatever seems to be causing the problem just seems less when one goes to bed.