Peter Attia· MD
way you're uncluttering the rest of your day by moving all of the worry into that scheduled time so this could be a valuable technique even absent insomnia totally yeah I would I'd say that probably between a third and half of my patients who come in with insomnia they've got some some bad sleep stuff for sure but for some of those people it's it's a primary anxiety disorder and sleep is suffering also whereas other folks it's primary insomnia and that's driving them anxious right but to rewind back to your earlier question about the middle of the night versus the beginning of the night so the other thing that scheduling worry time does besides uncluttering your whole day is it helps you get it done during the day so that when your head hits the pillow it's not there oh I already worked on this and also the knowledge oh I have time set aside tomorrow to work on this or to think about this so I don't have to do that now and cognitively this all makes sense and you would maybe think you can think your way out of this but you can't you actually have to try it and I've done this with a lot of people I've done this with doctors police people all people from all walks of life can really find this valuable