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does obsessive thinking about work cause you to have insomina?
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Dr. Peter Forster answered
36 years experience Psychiatry
It certainly can: The most common reason these days for insomnia is the failure to "wind down" from the daytime activities and thoughts. In part this is because we have created a world in which artificial light and technology allow us to be busy straight through to bedtime. Unfortunately, our brains are still designed to work in a world where the sun slowly sets and then we go to sleep with not much happening.
Answered on Jul 23, 2012
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