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I am still in awe at how much of a problem overthinking is. In my belief, I’d consider it the largest contributor to daily anxiety. The leading reason behind overthinking is rumination over past thoughts. Rumination is dwelling and essentially imagining yourself with all the emotions you had faced and you presumed the others had felt with major exaggeration. It’s pretty easy to imagine why you’d fall into a loop of overthinking in this highly volatile emotional state — you’d think of what others might have thought of you, might think of you going forward, whether you looked presentable and so goes the tale of the daily overthinker.

 

It’s a really stupid, but predictable thing to do. It saps away time from something you could do to change the future. If you’ve made a mistake and are ‘overthinking’ it, you could try something I do. I sit down, take a few deep breaths and then close my eyes. I let the scenario play and pass in my mind, on repeat a few times without letting the scenario affect my emotional state at present. I tally all my mistakes and find solutions to not repeat it again — TSBSDR: I meditate. Your time is way too important to be wasted, don’t overthink.