Overthinking as we know it has nothing to help in our problems, but for some reasons, our ancestors uploaded that behavior in our brain ages ago. Intuitively, overthinking is the reason why we survived in the wild before. When your grandfather^99 saw how your grandmother^99 died by being eaten by a lion, your grandfather^99 finally came to a conclusion that lions are dangerous. Therefore, when a tiger knocked on their cave door, he won't open it. He never saw a striped big cat eating a human, but his overthinking behavior helped him conclude that cats are dangerous. That's one point for the advantages of overthinking. On the next day, if by some chances a kitten knocked on their cave door, he won't still open it. Thinking that the cat will eat him, and that's one point for disadvantages. The same thing happens when you allow a seemingly "good man" in your life only to be left broken and never open your heart again regardless of what kind of man knocks on your door the next time. I guess you got the idea.
(Disclaimer, this grandfather^99 thing is just my made up story so I could explain why overthinking is kinda useless and useful in some point of our lives.)
Enough with my caveman stories. But how could you actually stop overthinking? The same way how to end an LSS. That's by singing the song up to its ending. That creates a signal to your brain that the song is over and hopefully you'll not summon that music demon again. Thank me later. If by some chances you don't know what an LSS means, it's when you're constantly singing a song in your head again and again and you can't stop it (just like overthinking). Whenever you're in the shower, thinking that a monster will eat you alive, open your eyes and tell yourself "Look at that. There is no monster!". Whenever you're assuming that those group of people are laughing at you, look around and tell yourself "They don't care about me, and if they do, I don't care" then continue walking. Overthinking starts when you're not sure about something, sad to say, you can't know everything. You'll never know if your partner is with someone right now, whatever the answer is, they won't tell you anyway. Overthinking will just make you doubt them more. The bad thing about this behavior is it always result into negative thinking. Negative thinking creates a loop of creating problems that don't even exist. Next time you overthink with something that you're sure you'll get an answer later, record it if what you thought became true. Eventually, you'll see that most of your made up problems are just made up! If only there's a way to see what really happened.
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