5 Types of Overthinking

Check this nice and insightful article from Maya Raichoora.

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1. Mental chatter: This is when your brain doesn’t stop. Thought after thought after thought.
2. Rumination about the past: This involves constantly dwelling on a mistake/event in the past.
3. Mind reading: This is when you are always trying to predict what other people think of you.
4. Living in the future: This is when you hyperfocus on an anxious concern about the future.
5. Reading too much into things: This is when we make mountains out of molehills.

Look into the article to see possible remedies or tactics to address each of these situations.

Thanks Maya for this contribution! We are certainly wired for overthinking and you have simplified the topic quite nicely, adding simple tips to overcome the problem.