While a lot of people experience anxiety, not everyone experiences it the same way. For some people, for example, stressful thoughts have a way of piling up at night... which is not only an unpleasant experience, but can have an impact on one's sleep. One individual who can relate to this is Chris Evans, but he has developed a personal method for suppressing and combating his negative thoughts as they arise when his head hits the pillow.
The actor/filmmaker is the guest on the latest episode of the podcast You Made It Weird With Pete Holmes, and in their conversation together Evans opens up about how he personally deals with anxiety. He explains that he is a person who tends to be plagued by stressful thoughts at night, but that he has found a way to train himself to halt them: it boils down to convincing himself that there is nothing he can do about his problems at night and view sleep as a "little vacation." In his words:
