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Acting Is Your Only Antidote To Overthinking
Stress, anxiety, sleeplessness, low patience, irritability, lack of self-belief, nausea, distress. What brings it on?
Overthinking is a disease. We all suffer from it. The symptoms are familiar: stress, anxiety, sleeplessness, low patience, irritability, lack of self-belief, nausea, distress. What brings it on?
In my experience, and FWIW, take it with a massive dose of salt because I ain’t no shrink — it’s inaction.
When does it start? Every single time you do something that isn’t your best. Whether it’s taking out the trash or composing a symphony, if you don’t give it your all, a little bit of your psyche dies. And then it rots. This decay causes your brain to ponder what you need to do to fix it. The brain, being the vivid creature it is, concocts all possible ways to fix it because the actual solution is something your neurosis instantly and vehemently rejects. So, it spins, spirals, and vortices… and it keeps going on until the symptoms seep into your persona, body, appearance, and speech. Once it reaches your thoughts, it becomes a positive feedback loop that descends into chaos, severely damaging self-belief.
That’s the cycle, I reckon.
