There’s nothing to be done but get up. Go to the refrigerator and make an enormous 7-layer Dagwood sandwich. Milk, if you like. I prefer the satisfying BELCH !!! of a cold lager.
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
I don’t have this problem often, but when I do, I read my GoComics at midnight. That helps burn off time that I would have used, regardless, in the morning.
I hate it when that happens. And I really hate it when I have to get up in the middle of the night and then the worrybomb goes off when I’m trying to get back to sleep.
It is not the worry that usually gets me but the random thoughts. The other night my brain decided to go through entire periodic table, alphabetically. First by name then by symbol. How do you turn that off!?
“When I’m worried and I can’t sleep / I count my blessings instead of sheep / And I fall asleep counting my blessings.
“When my bankroll is getting small / I think of when I had none at all / And I fall asleep counting my blessings.” From the movie White Christmas; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin (1954).
Back in my working / engineering days, solutions to tough problems were solved somehow by my brain during a night’s sleep. Many years before, Alfred E. Neuman taught me that.
My worry-bombs are thinking about all the things that I need to get done. Then I can’t sleep and am too tired the next day to get everything done that I needed to get done. Then I try to sleep but …YIKES!
Meditation and other forms of guided relaxation help a lot. Or at least I have found this to be the case. Simply slowing your breathing rate (down to under 10 breaths per minute)can have a profound relaxation effect.
BasilBruce over 2 years ago
I’ve had a few of those. Thankfully, there were no casualties.
BE THIS GUY over 2 years ago
I can advise on a cure but the GC censors may not approve.
sirbadger over 2 years ago
Defusing is easy. Undefusing is the hard part.
B UTTONS over 2 years ago
Stop swiping social media and news feeds.
Bilan over 2 years ago
That’s why people do their drinking in the evening.
ronaldspence over 2 years ago
Prayer helps, it really does!
GeorgeInAZ over 2 years ago
Amen.
enigmamz over 2 years ago
Quit reviewing the day at the end of it.
Gent over 2 years ago
Me only worry is if me get to eats enough foods the next day.
lavender headgear over 2 years ago
Poor Stephan. He seems to be going through a rough time.
Jayalexander over 2 years ago
There’s nothing to be done but get up. Go to the refrigerator and make an enormous 7-layer Dagwood sandwich. Milk, if you like. I prefer the satisfying BELCH !!! of a cold lager.
blunebottle over 2 years ago
Nancy White: Free Floating Anxiety (the solution is at the end.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV0kYQoivJQ
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 2 years ago
It can, but the cure is worse than the disease.
franki_g over 2 years ago
Maybe -
It can certainly be CONfused
and from the all appearances on SM, when God passed them out, many were REfused
iggyman over 2 years ago
Been there, stinks!
johnjoyce over 2 years ago
Good word, I’ll have to remember that.
Chris over 2 years ago
not that I know of.
monya_43 over 2 years ago
Don’t sweat the small stuff. Just remember that it’s all small stuff. Also, don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things. ;-p
SusieB over 2 years ago
Very much me at this moment.
Goat from PBS over 2 years ago
No known cure? I’d beg to differ.
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
-Jesus, Matthew 11:29, 30
Steverino Premium Member over 2 years ago
Is a worry bomb better or worse than an earworm?
mrwiskers over 2 years ago
One of my best wishes for mankind is for mankind to only use “religion” for personal help and growth.
Ellis97 over 2 years ago
I think that bomb has detonated many times in my head.
rossevrymn over 2 years ago
I don’t have this problem often, but when I do, I read my GoComics at midnight. That helps burn off time that I would have used, regardless, in the morning.
scpandich over 2 years ago
I hate it when that happens. And I really hate it when I have to get up in the middle of the night and then the worrybomb goes off when I’m trying to get back to sleep.
brick10 over 2 years ago
Or when you wake at 2 a.m.
pchemcat over 2 years ago
It is not the worry that usually gets me but the random thoughts. The other night my brain decided to go through entire periodic table, alphabetically. First by name then by symbol. How do you turn that off!?
Bookworm over 2 years ago
“When I’m worried and I can’t sleep / I count my blessings instead of sheep / And I fall asleep counting my blessings.
“When my bankroll is getting small / I think of when I had none at all / And I fall asleep counting my blessings.” From the movie White Christmas; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin (1954).
NWdryad over 2 years ago
I have one of those when I wake up in the morning.
wogears over 2 years ago
That’s me.
zeexenon over 2 years ago
Back in my working / engineering days, solutions to tough problems were solved somehow by my brain during a night’s sleep. Many years before, Alfred E. Neuman taught me that.
Buckeye67 over 2 years ago
Hey, pigs have reason to worry. It hard to forget the smell of bacon cooking.
CitizenOfTheValley over 2 years ago
My worry-bombs are thinking about all the things that I need to get done. Then I can’t sleep and am too tired the next day to get everything done that I needed to get done. Then I try to sleep but …YIKES!
dlaemmerhirt999 over 2 years ago
The other day, I kept waking up thinking I forgot something specific I had already finished! Best feeling EVER.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 2 years ago
Thou art God.
Rachelkkirby over 2 years ago
OMG You nailed it!!! This is going on my headboard!
Michael McKown Premium Member over 2 years ago
Scotch helps.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 2 years ago
You were defused years ago, Pig.
Sisyphos over 2 years ago
My shields are holding strong against worrybombs. I fall asleep if anything too easily once I lie down….
thedogesl Premium Member over 2 years ago
Meditation and other forms of guided relaxation help a lot. Or at least I have found this to be the case. Simply slowing your breathing rate (down to under 10 breaths per minute)can have a profound relaxation effect.
einarbt over 2 years ago
Lobotomy.
abba3 over 2 years ago
I tend to listen to boring youtube audiobooks and lectures in bed to keep my brain occupied as I fall asleep.