The Negative Thought Death Spiral

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When we get quiet at night which is the time where we're supposed to be like okay i'm kind of down regulating i'm stealing my mind that's when all this stuff from the day starts to spin into you and it keeps you as you describe. It just keeps arousing and arousing arousing creates a sort of negative thought death spiral right? And then we pile on anxiety about the fact that we're not able to let it go you're making it even worse. So there's two main ways that kind of we typically approach this, one is really trying to schedule time in the day where you just worry right. The other way is more of a problem solving where it's

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