My name is Will DeFries, and this is the Sunday Scaries Podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

It usually happens in the middle of the night. A couple months ago, it was always 3am on the dot.

And I'm not sure if the time change student moving forward, but it's now been trending

much closer to 4am. And this really isn't a new thing. In fact, I feel like it's happened my entire life.

Of course, I'm talking about that moment in the middle of the night, where your eyes pop open

in something anxiety inducing is top of mind. No light, no sound, no distractions. Just you,

your thoughts, and that lingering feeling of dread that you won't fall back asleep in a timely

fashion. I don't know if I've always had anxiety in a typical sense, but I know I've always been

a worrier. In middle school, I'd worry about the logistics of hauling all my ski stuff to an away

me. In high school, I worried about what would happen if my GPA dip below 3.8 and my parents found out.

In college, I was simply worried about the path that I was on. And in my early 20s, I just worried

about finding my way in life. Pretty natural causes of worry overall, right? That is, until those

things really begin to weigh on you more and more. And yes, it was at that time in my life that I

not only saw professional help, but I also started Sunday's scary. This very creative outlet

that relieved me of so much anxiety that I never really even knew that I had.

You're a worrier, my therapist told me. Why are you so stressed, my wife would ask?

And I didn't have much of a response to either. At least not much of a response that seemed

justified. But just recently, you know, that night at 4am, I decided to actually do something I

think I should have done a long time ago in place of getting on Twitter in the middle of the night.

I googled ways to fall asleep in the middle of the night. And while I don't remember any tried

and true methods that were written about that night, I stumbled upon an article that framed how

I've been looking at my own anxiety lately. It was called the difference between worry, stress,

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