
Happy to talk to anyone, perfectly natural in social situation. I didn’t even see it as confidence, I was just me. My mental health novels, including one about severe anxiety, are here. Find me on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. I explain this further in the below video.

By thinking about something insignificant, you weaken anxiety's ability to cause you to overthink everything. Rather than arguing with your thoughts or obsessing over them, gently shift your attention onto something else, something neutral. It's a process that involves many steps, but a step you can take right now to slow down that gerbil is to have something with you or around you to divert your attention. You have the power and the ability to interfere in anxiety's overthinking everything. Anxiety causes overthinking, but with anxiety, these thoughts aren't always trustworthy. After all, if we think it, it's real, and if we think it constantly, it's very real. Having these same anxious messages run through our head everywhere we go takes its toll.įurther, another dangerous result of anxiety and overthinking everything is that we start to believe what we think. One result of the thinking too much that comes with anxiety is that we are often left feeling physically and emotionally unwell. Day and night, the wheel squeaks.Īnxiety and overthinking everything makes us both tired and wired. Like a gerbil hooked up to an endless drip of an energy drink, they run and run and wheel around in one place, going absolutely nowhere. With anxiety, not only are these thoughts (and more) running through our brains, but they are always running through our brains, non-stop, endlessly.


Fortunately, anxiety and overthinking everything doesn't have to be a permanent part of our existence. Anxiety makes us overthink everything in many different ways, and the result of this overthinking isn't helpful at all. Why? Because anxiety causes me to overthink everything. To me, though, there are, indeed, problems. I've been accused of making problems where there aren't any. The anxious brain is hypervigilant, always on the lookout for anything it perceives to be dangerous or worrisome. One of the horrible hallmarks of any type of anxiety disorder is the tendency to overthink everything. Anxiety and overthinking tend to be evil partners.
