Suggestions. What do DUers do to stop the crap that's going on from churning in your brain

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30. Thank you about my daughter, it's even come to the point

where I've done an obituary search for her.
And cats, I had 2 cats, one of them hers because she has been bounced around from one mental healthcare facility to another. He was a cow-cat, the black & white ones marked like a Holstein cow and he had a black mustache and chin beard. All the people in the neighborhood liked him because the mailboxes are in front of my house and I would have him tied on a long line where he would come and check out those getting their mail and then flop over with a "you may pet me now" attitude. Very personable. He suddenly got sick last August and died within a month and she doesn't know. I made a grave marker with a big picture where he is posing and looking at the camera like a portrait. It makes me cry just in the telling of this and remembering of his life.

It was not a good 2024 for me personally and I thought this year would be better and so far it hasn't been. I've come to realize that I really have lived a pretty charmed life until recently.
But as I mentioned, my old house is like a memory palace to me. There are so many far worse off than me.

There are lots of good suggestions here, many that I do use such as listen to audio books when I'm going to sleep because my eyes are closed and I usually nod off. I also "watch" on my tablet old TV shows and series that I seen so often that I don't need to have my eyes open (I've done Downton Abbey twice recently).