Overthinking is a thought process that is overly complex resulting in wasted time, risk due to inaction and poor quality decisions.
Considering too many factors in a decision without filtering and weighing importance.
Using the decision-making process as an excuse to avoid something you don't want to do.
Ignoring something you already know.
Wasting time and resources thinking about a decision that doesn’t need to be made yet.
Seeing problems where they don't exist.
Stalling on a decision due to missing information.
You end up making every situation in your life about 100x more difficult than it has to be.
You cannot let anything go, because you’re convinced that if you just run over the details a few more times, you’ll finally uncover some new understanding of the situation or it will somehow change the outcome.
You’ve probably never been sure about a thing in your life. You’ve approached everything from choosing a school and a partner to your outfit in the morning and brand of bread at the grocery store with equal levels of angst.
You’re constantly thanking the friends who stick around to hear you mull over the same details of a situation or relationship again and again, and though you never really arrive at a different conclusion, just the act of overthinking is enough for you.
Sleep is the most difficult aspect of your life because laying silently in the dark is the only time you aren’t distracted enough to not be able to sink into racing thoughts.
If someone ever breaks up with you/declines to go out with you, you convince yourself it’s because of a hundred inconsequential missteps you made.
You end up torturing yourself over every other banal side comment someone makes because obviously there is some meaning to be uncovered, it’s clearly just a matter of thinking about it until you find it.
“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.”
― Anthony Hopkins
― Anthony Hopkins
Thank you!