2 Ways To Deal With Feelings of Irritability and Anger

If you find yourself feeling irritable, angry, or overly sensitive, take a moment to reflect on how you have been sleeping over the past few weeks. Have you been waking up in the middle of the night? Have you been sleeping lightly? Have you experienced recurring bad dreams or nightmares? Do you have pain in your body that is keeping you up? Have you been looking at your phone late at night?

If so, this may explain your elevated anger response. When we miss out on our sleep, our minds and bodies don’t have time to reset correctly.

You are probably aware of some of the things you can do to get a better night’s sleep, but I’ll mention them again:

• Exercise can be helpful, especially vigorous exercise. (That said, overexercising has been linked to insomnia.)
• Reducing screen time in favor of being outside can also improve sleep quality.
• Having an evening wind-down routine can help, whether that’s doing some light stretching or meditation before bed, journaling or sketching, or taking a relaxing bath.
• For people struggling with nightmares or bad dreams, sleeping with a comfort object can help. You may also try journaling your dreams and changing the negative endings to positive ones.

2. Do you have the sensation that you are rushing through life?

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