Insomnia: Is your mind keeping you up at night?

Category: Health

Sometimes, it’s as if you can’t get your thoughts to stop talking long enough to fall asleep. You’re mentally analyzing the day that just passed while simultaneously anticipating the day ahead; occasionally, your memory may go well back into the archives and bring up something humiliating you did in high school. Isn’t it entertaining? Racing thoughts might indicate a significant mental health disorder such as anxiety. But these moments come to everyone now and then, and we’re all too old for bedtime fairy tales. “I just can’t get my brain to shut off at night.” This is a frequent complaint among people who suffer from insomnia or have problems falling asleep.