KatieOCD!
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- 29d
Overthinking
How to stop overthinking??
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 29d
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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- 29d
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
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- 29d
Watch the breath rise and pass away. Check out some simple meditation techniques.
AnxietyGirl AnxietyGirl
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- 29d
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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- 29d
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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