Creig Luke
Overthinking
The mind is the temple of the soul. What is in a person’s mind, can determine a person’s character. But sometimes, we tend to think too much, which affects our day-to-day activities. This condition is known as overthinking.
Overthinking is a psychological condition in which the minds tends to think too much, and worry too much, about some topics that either affected a person in the past, or will affect a person in the future. Think of Overthinking as pop-up advertisements /notifications in a website. If there are too many of such pop-up advertisements /notifications in a particular website, the website tends to lag and slow down. Similarly, overthinking tends to slow down and affect our normal thinking process, since we have a lot of unwanted thoughts in our mind. Overthinking hinders our capacity to think critically, and we do absurd things, without thinking properly. People who tend to overthink a lot are also very antisocial, shy and keep a distance from other people.
Reasons for Overthinking
There are many reasons for a person to overthink situations. Overthinking might be triggered due to a past incident or trauma that is haunting the person, or the person has an irrational fear (phobia) of something or someone. The trauma or irrational fear is stored in the mind as a core memory, and whenever the person has a bad incident, this memory gets triggered. The mind starts to think about the various possibilities that can occur, and the person starts to panic. Sometimes, due to overthinking, the person may even experience a panic attack, during which the person starts sweating profusely, turn red, and may even faint. A panic attack is basically the mind shutting down due to the overload of negative and pessimistic thoughts.
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Overthinking is more common among lonely, depressed and differently-abled people. Loneliness and depression increase overthinking exponentially. If a person does not have anyone with whom he can share his thoughts, he is more likely to overthink and curse his fate. Depression is a vicious cycle. A person falls into depression due to the negative thoughts in his mind. Depression makes the person to overthink even more. This goes on and on and the person goes deeper into the pit of depression. If not diagnosed properly at the right time, excessive overthinking may lead to serious psychological and mental problems later on.
Controlling our thoughts
How do we control overthinking and our negative thoughts? It is said the person who has control over his mind and thoughts, has control over the world. If a person has control over his mind, he can overcome any obstacle. A free and peaceful mind also ensures that you are productive to the maximum extent. Controlling one’s mind is not an easy task, but it can be achieved with proper mind training and exercise. Doing Yoga and meditation daily helps reduce overthinking to a large extent. Exercising regularly not only helps our mind but also makes us think positively and have a positive outlook on the various struggles and hardships that we face. Talking to a close friend or a relative during hardship or a difficult situation reduces stress and eases the burden on the mind. Lastly, believing in yourself helps a lot to alleviate negative thoughts and perform better.
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Very informative article…keep it up
amazing work!
Well written!!
Thanks for the feedback guys!
well written!
Wow!!
well-written!
Thank you
Well written and structured.
I’m an over thinker myself. It’s bad really bad.
But awareness and knowledge about it actually helps. Well done my friend 🙂
The information provided is really good and the solutions are also simple and on point which everyone can follow. This is the aspect that needs more exploration and awareness among people. Causes and effects can also be mentioned but overall this is a good read.
Informative one. Keep writing.
amazing and well written
Overthinking is not really taken as an issue sometimes because some people refer it to analyzing a situation, while on the contrary it actually eats up your energy to perform daily tasks or even take a situation normally. a great article to help people know the difference between analyzing and over-analyzing a situation or matter.
thank you so much for the enlightenment. 🙂
Yes, definitely! Overthinking is more of a bane, which prevents us from carrying out our daily tasks successfully.
Over thinking is a very relevant topic in our community. Most of us have the habit of over thinking and making ourselves mentally sick. And this article is such a good one. The information provided and the your solution is very applicable in our life on a good way.
brilliantly written
informative!
keep it up
nice job done
will share
good content
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informative
The article is pretty insightful in terms of the concept and the ways to tackle it. It can be of great help to everyone out here. A good read!
Amazing content
Well Protayed
Very informative article
It is a thought-provoking and informative article. Keep writing!!!!
Thank you for this article. It is very informative ✌
Overthinking, a cycle of thoughts most of us tend to get sucked into from time to time! Great article!! Informative but the section of ‘how to control overthinking’ could have been put in points so it’s easier to read. Just a suggestion 🙂
It is a thought provoking article. I am really glad to be able to read it. Thanks for sharing ✨
informative.thanks for sharing
Hello dear.. being appreciative towards your hardwork I must suggest that if you wil describe it in physiological way it will be much better..and explaining when people should go to a professional person to solve their inner problem will be helpful much.
Thank you