Say you had a long day and its time for bed, you turn off your lights and you know you should be falling asleep by now staring at your ceiling in a pitch dark room. Your mind is racing with all sorts of thoughts either about something you said and wonder if things came out wrong.
THINKING TOO MUCH CAN DAMAGE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH.
Overthinkers spend endless hours
regretting past incidents or feeling anxious about the future.
you beat yourself up over things that happened in the past. These thoughts end up consuming your life, as if a raincloud were sitting above your head. When you overthink, you may believe your mind is just sorting things out. But that simply isn’t the case.
There's a clear difference between overthinking and problem solving !
Problem solving is a positive and productive act, solving it means identifying the problem, looking for alternatives and then finding the best solution. It conducts you to proactively try and resolve an issue.
Overthinking is about fixation.
Your mind stays stuck on the first step of problem solving: the problem,
its a negative and unproductive act.
You're only focusing on the problem without trying to find a way past it.
Problem solving is about improving a situation while overthinking centers around the idea that there is no way out.
However you can take steps to changing the behavior. You can shift yourself from tiring yourself out with thoughts of solutions by reaching a conclusion. You can catch closure and gain peace of mind.
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