{"id":17750,"date":"2023-09-08T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=17750"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:18:30","slug":"overthinking-is-that-a-good-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2023\/09\/08\/overthinking-is-that-a-good-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Overthinking. (Is that a good title?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you guys overthink much?<\/span>
<\/span>For me, Overthinking is like a straitjacket, or one of those Chinese finger traps. <\/span><\/p>\n

The more I try to get away from it, the more trapped I get. <\/span>
<\/span> I start replaying scenarios over and over in my head. Constantly. <\/span><\/p>\n

Should I have said this? Should I have done that? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

What would have happened if I did <\/span><\/i>that?
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Sometimes all these thoughts crawling around in my head feel like ants.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s sort of a blessing and a curse at the same time though. On one hand, I think of multiple scenarios that could go wrong. And if one of them comes up, I feel much more prepared then if I hadn’t thought of it. But at the same time, overthinking has caused me to keep my mouth shut more than once. <\/span><\/p>\n

I remember overthinking about the stupidest of things. <\/span><\/p>\n

One time someone waved in my direction, I smiled and waved back. And then I realized that they weren’t waving at me, but at someone behind me. I for real spent the next two or more days with that scenario in my head. Like a broken record player. But at the same time, when you overthink about what might happen, and that something does happen, doesn’t it feel like a sort of relief. <\/span>
<\/span>Like, \u201cOk I’m prepared for this.\u201d and you have that pre-generated response. <\/span>
<\/span> I swear it’s even worse for texting. If I’m texting someone, and I get a message saying something like \u201cok, sure\u201d. I completely dissect that message. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWas that an \u2018Im tired of talking to you <\/span>ok sure<\/span><\/i>\u2019?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWas that an \u2018I don’t care about this topic <\/span>ok sure<\/span><\/i>\u2019?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if it was a normal <\/span>ok sure<\/span><\/i> and if I ask about it that will just make them more annoyed?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as it sucks to overthink the smallest of things, it’s probably helped me out more often than not. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes I wish I could turn my mind off, and kind of just, watch everything play out. <\/span>
<\/span>Sorry this post is kind of all over the place.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Do you guys overthink much?For me, Overthinking is like a straitjacket, or one of those Chinese finger traps.  The more I try to get away from it, the more trapped I get. I start replaying scenarios over and over in my head. Constantly.  Should I have said this? Should I have done that?  What would … Continue reading “Overthinking. (Is that a good title?)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17815,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions\/17815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}