The Sleep & Anxiety Map

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The 3 a.m. wake-up is its own cluster. So is the racing mind that arrives the moment you lie down. Anxiety and sleep affect each other in both directions: poor sleep makes anxiety louder; anxiety makes sleep harder. The places where the two cluster together are predictable, and so are the things that help and the things that backfire.

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