Never ending thoughts

They say your brains hypothalamus is what helps you quite down. It controls your body when you are unconscious. Well for some reason I think I have a malfunctioning Hypothalamus.

Lately, even when my eyes seem so weak they won't stay open, my brain is running a mile a minute. Up and down my thoughts run. I hear you can lose as many calories in a 40 minute study session from thinking as you can in a 20 minute work out. Of this I'm sure is true because all this thinking is wearing me out! HELP!

Last night I was plagued with nightmares, today I'm plagued with useless thoughts that arouse no real conversation or intelligent thought to dwell on. What is wrong with me? Is this healthy. Will my hypothalamus wear out? It's only meant to work half a day and then the other half tells my body to breath in and out every few seconds and tells my heart to beat. I hope the over active past couple of weeks will not shorten my life span.

I know most of it has to do with my stress level. What makes the holidays this stressful. MONEY. Why on a holiday made out of giving gifts comes the highest stress level. Most of my problem comes with the fact I like to give too much. If I weren't female I would most likely give the shirt off my back. Wait until I have kids, I have a feeling my poor husband will pull what little hair he has right off his head!