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by Tade0 238 days ago
Yes and my comment is just relaying what professionals have to say about the phenomenon:

Bottom line up front: the way out is to set aside some time for a menial task that isn't mentally taxing.

Screens are a particularly effective means of avoiding processing one's emotions. Those, of course, don't go away by themselves so if you don't take time to deal with them, you create a dependency.

The moment before going to sleep is typically when piled up emotions and intrusive thoughts return, so that's also when the temptation to set them aside is the greatest.

Resisting that temptation, but giving in to it eventually is dangerous, because next time the signal is stronger.