one more rule
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pegkerr said reminded me of one more rule I keep, and this one actually is a rule rather than just a way of dealing with my body's quirks.
I call it the 2 AM rule: if I wake up in the middle of the night and start worrying (this does generally only happen to me between 1 and 3AM) I invoke the 2AM rule, which is basically "Morning is soon enough to deal with it." Then I put the worry out of my mind
This is because I am apparently an irrational worrier at 2AM; if I worry about work I convince myself that everyone knows I'm a total fraud and they're about to fire me, and if I worry about health I convince myself that whatever that tiny symptom is, it's a sure sign of cancer or something else that's going to kill me painfully. The crucial insight was that neither of those cases is anything I can fix in the middle of the night anyway, so now I defer the worrying to the next morning, by which time I am generally rational enough to realize I was being silly anyway.
pegkerr said reminded me of one more rule I keep, and this one actually is a rule rather than just a way of dealing with my body's quirks.I call it the 2 AM rule: if I wake up in the middle of the night and start worrying (this does generally only happen to me between 1 and 3AM) I invoke the 2AM rule, which is basically "Morning is soon enough to deal with it." Then I put the worry out of my mind
This is because I am apparently an irrational worrier at 2AM; if I worry about work I convince myself that everyone knows I'm a total fraud and they're about to fire me, and if I worry about health I convince myself that whatever that tiny symptom is, it's a sure sign of cancer or something else that's going to kill me painfully. The crucial insight was that neither of those cases is anything I can fix in the middle of the night anyway, so now I defer the worrying to the next morning, by which time I am generally rational enough to realize I was being silly anyway.
