Stop overanalyzing

The fact that a homeless heroin addict hasn’t replied to an email in three days does not mean anything. It doesn’t indicate that he’s dead… or that I insulted him… or that he’s on his way home.
People do things that don’t make any sense all the time.
I just wish I could better remember that at the times when I’m spiraling into the what-if-what-if doldrums.

If I don’t hear back from them I tend to overanalyze the situation and feel like I did something wrong. Then I start texting to see if I did anything.. and if I do not hear back until way later on.. then I just give up and move on.

Its a never-ending cycle for me.. I want to stop it so I don’t put my life in jeopardy any longer.

I over think and over analyze everything I do. It really disrupts many aspects of my life, especially my relationships. I can;t ever just enjoy the moment without constantly predicting and doubting everything. I need to learn to just let go and let the chips fall into place themselves. I am in therapy, and am hoping that it will help with this.

I have this problem as well. I overanalyze people, events now and in the future, situations, professional life, social life, MYSELF, everything. Its a big source of anxiety for me. I feel that I need to take steps to work towards resolving these worries rather than sitting down every day and working up these situations in different ways in my mind because that does not seem to solve the problem. Its not going to be easy as my mind is so used to analyzing. When I am sitting free at home with nothing to do, my mind wonders and starts analyzing. True that someone said, it feels like internal madness. But it must stop. It wont be easy. I feel its not under my control. I am not sure how I am going to do this. Maybe just interrupt myself whenever I am over analyzing and say ” STOP IT! STOP ANALYZING! DO SOMETHING! REST IS FATE! CANT CHANGE AND CANT CONTROL EVERYTHING! DO YOUR BEST AND LEAVE THE REST”. I will really have to shout this at myself since my mind is very stubborn. Sigh. This is going to be tough!

ever got the feeling all you do is have thoughts running across your brain, about the world, what people say and what they mean. mysterious people have driven me up the wall and since i think too much i analyze people and events over and over. i don’t want to change me but have a control over my thoughts. i get too affected by others.
so things to do:
1. after i get work keep busy.
2. meditate
3. don’t let people get to you.

part of our personalities? I need a good reason, because I feel like overanalyzing is the only way I’ll keep myself safe…

Well, I’m definitely not making progress on this one. Several seconds ago, having read someone’s “Top 25 Books” list from two years ago, I spent almost ten minutes studying it and then composed a reply (complete with bullet points!) that would probably require a several hundred word answer. On the internet.
That’s not even analytical; that’s just embarrassing.

I think the best way to settle this problem is to do other things. Maybe it’s the best way for me, or everyone, but honestly, if I can just distract myself and kinda relax from stressful activities, then eventually my thoughts will sooth out. Sometimes I don’t feel like doing anything after having so many of these thoughts, and that’s the hardest: when you’re laying in bed, and all you want is the world to go away, but if you get up and put on some good, loud music and think of a really fun time with your friends or even with yourself, that’s when I feel like my overanalyzed thoughts are at bay and aren’t bothering me for the time.

I don’t know if this’ll help anyone else, but it has helped me a lot.

For me, overanalyzing is a very private action. I only do it with very specific things, but once I start thinking about these situations my imagination takes off where no one else can go. Sometimes I daydream worst-case scenarios, where all my biggest fears play in. Mostly, though, the big problem is not being able to reconcile my imagination with reality. My thoughts run me into paralysis. I can stress myself so much with the discrepancies between my created abstract world and the physical one, so I freeze.

I realized that I tend to hide these thoughts from everyone around me, for fear that people (even my best friends) will see too much. Which is ridiculous, since I’m not very good at hiding things anyway. I just get privately miserable. For the past few weeks I’ve made a conscious effort to be really honest and clear with people, and it’s always paid off. So before I start overanalyzing everything I must stop myself, be honest about what I’m feeling, and communicate.

I over analyze a lot of things, especially when it comes to things I have said/people have said to me. I need to stop worrying so much about it!