The latter part of Wednesday was not fantastic & my mental state deteriorated pretty quicky. Sleep deprivation certainly didn't help. By then, I'd realised that eating dinner earlier = significantly easier to fall asleep earlier (so that's something to work on for next week I think).
I ended up needing to choose between a) having a proper dinner and b) having dinner at a not-ridiculous hour -> sleep. I chose sleep. Unfortunately, sleep did not choose me. I tried to sleep at about 9 (super e a r l y), and maybe entered a restful state 10ish.
Have you tried freezing meals or prepping them and putting them in the fridge so that you just have to heat them/cook them? Some of your inability to sleep could be due to you worrying that you're not sleeping - I wouldn't have a clue how to go about fixing that, but it's something to be aware of.
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I'm alright now which is good - as in the past something like this would've taken much longer for me to recover from - but this has made me realise that although focusing on "general long term wellbeing" is nice & beneficial, I should also work on my short-term responses to emotional upheaval. Not entirely sure how I'll do that yet, but it's something I'll keep thing about.
This might seem a bit counterproductive, but I've found that short-term, any sort of distraction helps - particularly a distraction that lets you do something with your hands without having to concentrate too much (e.g. colouring, oragami, knitting etc.). It's a bit harder at first to remember to do something, but if you find something that you can do then it sorta gets to the point where you can recognise that you need to do something to calm down and you have something to do. The reason I prefer things that you don't have to concentrate on is that it allows you to think through whatever you're worrying about but it's somehow different to worrying whilst doing nothing haha. Don't know if this is at all useful, but it's certainly worked better for me than just trying to relax or meditate etc. :)