On this mental health awareness month,
let’s talk about overthinking.
With which many of us deal with every day.
Do you dwell in past a lot?
Do you worry about future?
Do you keep thinking over small things?
Does your thinking bothers your daily life?
If yes, you are a over-thinker.
I am an over-thinker.
I did not choose to be one.
But I think a lot.
Overthinking can be stressful.
It does not give you any solutions.
But takes your mental peace
and stress you out.
Some days I think so much
that I cannot even sleep.
The next day, same situation that I was overthinking on
wasn’t even that important.
Then, I realise.
I just wasted my whole day overthinking on worthless issue.
It frustrates me.
It drains my energy.
I cannot focus on my work.
I need t get rid of this habit.
Yes, habit.
Overthinking is a habit.
It is a bad habit that I need to get rid of.
I am trying but it’s not working.
I need to work on this.
On this mental health awareness month,
let’s break the cycle of overthinking.
Let’s do our bit to overcome this
and work towards a healthy mind.
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I often feel as though I have no other choice. As a recovering addict, making healthy choices doesn’t necessarily come naturally. Overthinking is my form of hypervigilance. And yes, it is tiring.
Thanks for the invite to keep working on it – and the solidarity in knowing I’m not doing so alone.
Yes, it is overwhelming sometimes as well. I can understand your feeling.
Nikki– Yes, you are absolutely correct. It seems as though it is unavoidable once it becomes full fledged. Here lately, I’ve adopted some ways to help maintain it by keeping myself busy, listening to music and telling myself that these intrusive thoughts that are plaguing my mind and stealing my peace are not real. As my mental health case manager always told me; I have no evidence to support these intrusive thoughts.
I am glad you are working on it.
Thank you Nikki. It’s certainly not easy but I have to somehow break the mold that’s had a hold of me for what seems like a lifetime.
Absolutely!!! All the best.
Yes, I am over-thinking. Thanks for the useful post.
You’re welcome
Overthinking – An exhausting flaw I’ve come to know, for so long. It is in fact mentally draining. It’s bruised parts of my marriage that I feel will never heal. I’ve wasted countless hours, days, and even years of my life, I won’t ever get back. My worst fears have tormented me in ways I can’t even describe. Overthinking has destroyed parts of me, causing me to lose myself. I never asked for this; I never asked for this monster to invade every part of me. One little thought can and will morph into a huge fireball that tarnishes the kindest soul.
Yeah, we do not ask for it but it becomes a habit and sometimes unavoidable. We still need to learn how to deal with this uninvited guest in our lives.