Overthinking - Is it a prison of the mind or the key to understanding?

Hello,

In the previous post, I talked about losing passion and how it can disrupt a person's entire life, whether in completing daily tasks or canceling important decisions that you would have made if you had not lost passion. In this post, I want to talk about another enemy of man, which is what disturbs his sleep and makes him feel sad.

Overthinking is one of the things that causes a person to suffer from psychological illnesses, and for me, it was my first enemy many times. Here, I am not saying that I lost passion, so I will not do anything, but it is related to the fear of doing things because overthinking makes you calculate everything with extreme precision, and things do not go like this. Here, I am not saying that you should be random, but balance in everything is important.

If you want to invest in something and then start thinking about losing money and what you will do next and how you will secure your lifestyle and a lot of overthinking that will eat up your time and will also consume your mental health, and in the end, you will find yourself reaching what I talked about previously, which is losing passion.

So overthinking leads to loss of passion and this is related to decisions and future matters, but in the past it is also a disaster because we are all really afflicted with this matter because we certainly made many mistakes in the past and it will never stop because we are human beings, so thinking a lot about what you did in the past and you start saying if I had done this then this would have happened, you will find yourself eating the present with the past, so you did not enjoy the present and you will not be able to change the past.

Solution

I sat with myself for some time until I found a suitable treatment for overthinking and I reached a solution that treated this matter relatively for me, which is to occupy yourself as long as you are busy, your mind will not find time for reprimand and overthinking, as I try to increase my tasks daily and I know that I will not be able to accomplish them all, but in the end I will not have free time, and even for entertainment and recreation, if I am going to watch a series and I have an hour or two, I put 3 episodes with me, each lasting 3 hours, in the end I will not have free time that makes me lament my luck in the past or fear the future through overthinking.

Thank You

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