Lizemine, I totally understand where you're coming from. It is difficult to not be in your head all the time. Something that really helps me is just letting it out. I like to journal myself, but you can also paint or work on some crafts. You can also talk it out with a friend, or a professional. For some time, I was also seeing a psychiatrist and it really helped me to talk it out. You are never alone and there's always something that can help you, even if it doesn't work for everyone else.

Writing it out and doing something that distracts your usual pattern of 'thinking' into 'doing thinking'.

Even breathing will help you find the calm for your brain and body to reset.

Yes! You are not alone. I am going through this now with everything.

My job is absolutely insane and the work load is crazy. I've had to push back on people because there way to do it is long and unnecessary, and I have come up with better ways to shorten the process. Which hurts the man's feelings, but I don't care because I do the work. Then later I feel bad, and it's like why? So I try to write out plans, but time is limited.

My house. Money pit! Staggering out repairs that follows up with a renovation. This stresses me out because it's $$$ and a mess! However, it's hard to be patient getting to that end result. I do t have endless money to do it at once. Which is why I stagger stuff out. But then I start to doubt the decisions I have made. Like "had I known this outcome, I would have had someone else do this instead" or "had I known this I should have had so and so do this as well, but argh! It wasn't a priority" or "I should have researched this more to do this" again, I write it all out. But then it changes because of a unexpected plumbing repair because pipes busted, so now I need to change these other ones that are bad. My windows leak in water, so that is a whole other project that is costly so needless to say I didn't need plumbing issues.

Then there is my child. "I should have spent 10 minutes a day doing this with her" or " I should have put my fatigue aside and just gone to the park"

Anyways, I would like to journal my thoughts like I have had done in the past. I think it helped to collect things together. My time is limited these days. So if my options are to journal or exercise, I need to exercise. Exercise helps reduce the wandering mind of everything to do or what should have done. Or whatever it is that bothers you. Writing it down can sometimes create more stress, if you are not actually doing something about what is bothering you. Or you can get a serotonin lift by exercise which helps clear the mind and make you realize it's not bad. A good balanced diet helps in that as well.