KatieOCD!
- Date posted
- 7w
Overthinking
How to stop overthinking??
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 7w
When you find out let me know 😅 It's so hard. Best way I've found is to do something- anything. A walk, go into a store and talk to the checkout person, listen to a podcast about something interesting, if it's light overthinking reading can help (if not it's hard to focus), call a friend, you name it. But I find disrupting the thoughts in that kind of smeak attack way is better than trying to just stop the thoughts directly
trappedtrapped
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- 7w
If only I knew… my therapist says to put the thoughts on a cloud. Let them be there and continue on. It works sometimes.
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 7w
Watch the breath rise and pass away. Check out some simple meditation techniques.
AnxietyGirl AnxietyGirl
- Date posted
- 7w
Hmm, I've done a few things, I think when you are in the thick of it, you go on and on about it. I think, I've practiced enough awareness that when it happens, everything I feel I want to do, I try not to. For example, I tend to overthink as a protective response, to predict all possible outcomes when things feel out of my control. But I've also started getting enough distance from myself to see that I do this. When it happens, now what I am able to do, not always, is to shake it off, do some movement, bounce on the balls of my feet, do EFT tapping. Tai chi, anything gently movement based.
gatitoamarillogatitoamarillo
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- 7w
hi Katie. Me personally have started to stop overthinking after doing it always via finding peace in the ways I do things and finding authenticity and healing from my trauma and core beliefs that are shameful or wrong. I think that if you slowly and gently work towards that you will surely catch yourself in a moment of mental blank which is heaven for all ocd ridden people, just perfect. However, it’s also a matter of stop controlling. You cannot stop overthinking but you can ride through it as a slide and minimize the impact of your own thoughts, making them little instead of the other way back. Don’t try to distract, but rather, face them, laugh at how silly they are if you can, and let them come. With ocd: LESS IS MORE. hope you heal 💗💖
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- 24w
Does anyone else experience this in their relationship?
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Boss34
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- 24w
Question…
When you get a stuck thought in your mind, as stupid or untrue as it may be, how do any of you block them out, or try to at least? It’s like my mind has another voice telling me making up the stupidest things?
Coolgirl321
- Date posted
- 10w
Overthinking or ocd
I feel like my whole life I’ve been overthinking everything. I remember having really bad intrusive thoughts as a kid but I thought I had gotten over it. I feel like I’m starting to see that it’s just not manifested in different ways. I tried to bring it up with my therapist but she thinks it’s just anxiety. I feel like it’s something more. Does anyone have any advice on what personally showed you what was the difference
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