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Ruth Jones

Can't sleep? The 'relaxing' habit that kept me awake and how I got my sleep back on track

A woman lies in bed in the dark with her phone directed at her face. In the top left corner is a faded screen from a video game.

It was during my fifth attempt to arrange bottles in height order before the countdown ran out that I realized my bedtime had long since passed and I was way too buzzed to sleep.

I should have been dozing happily. Instead I was crouched over my phone, screen blaring in my eyes, trying to organize a set of pixelated kitchen shelves. The 'de-stress' game that was meant to be soothing me to sleep was having the opposite effect.

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