Hello Sadly. Welcome to DS. Sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here.

You are far from alone on that over-thinking symptom. I often wonder if over-thinking is the very essence of anxiety disorder. Venting daily is my most effective tool for managing my over-thinking symptom. Getting my anxieties of the day into writing and sharing those words with a trusted therapy supporter goes quite a long way toward making the chaos between my ears less dominant over my day.

This very website is one of the places I feel safe doing exactly that. Hope it serves you as well as it has served me.

Welcome aboard.

Welcome to the anxiety board at DS.

You've taken the important first step in writing it out. Keep writing it out, sorting through the words, the thoughts, feelings, emotions, and consider all the choices.

The more you 'do' thinking and work it out, the better your balance will be. Anxiety is natural and it is a helper, so use it to your advantage. Learn the niggles and use the stop, pause, breathe, choice, until you find your calm balance in the moment.

Anxiety is overthinking!

Keep writing and articulating to others, either in writing or in person. You will start to realize everybody is dealing with something and MOST (not all) people you talk to will relate and be empathetic.

I was like that today w/the overthinking and anxiety, insecurity. Luckily my sister called me and we went into another town and walked around, had a nice day. I was fretful in the beginning of our outing, but as the day went on I relaxed. It really helps a lot to get outside. It takes your mind off of things. Stops all those negative thoughts, especially if it's a nice day. So whenever you feel like you do now, just push yourself to go outside.

Thank you all for the advice I really appreciate it. I will practice what you guys recommended. So far I've been trying to keep busy so I don't have time to sit and think because whenever I'm alone and have free time that's when my mind decides to just go crazy and all these thoughts scrabble in my head which overwhelm me and cause me anxiety.

Here is my thoughts: if you can recognize your thoughts for what they are, ie: insecurity issues, then you possess the ability to not act upon them to start issues with others. Try approaching it from this perspective and work on your self esteem with affirmations about yourself. Also, get in therapy and talk it out with a professional. You have nowhere to go but up!

I feel the EXACT same way you do a lot. Honestly, I was looking for the words to post but you said them perfectly. Let’s team up and beat this together!!

I too overthink anything and everything. I usually ruminate all day long on an issue I had in my AA meetings. I am totally new to the area and don't know anyone really. They only have one noon AA meeting a day here where I came from had hundreds of meetings. The overthinking is driving me nuts.