Overthinking

[overthinkingpenguin]

I overthink literally everything. Once one thing is over with my brain just moves straight onto something else. It’s stupid things like if someone doesn’t answer the phone I think they’re dead, I have a shared ownership property that I constantly worry I’ll be evicted from, if my manager puts a catch up in at work I think I’m going to get sacked etc.. I know I’m being irrational but can’t seem to prevent my brain from going from 0-100!

I don’t particularly want to go to the GP and go back down the route of anti anxiety/anti depressant medication so thought I’d post here to see if anyone could recommend any natural remedies or good strategies that helped them!

I don't have the answer but I'd be interested in any suggestions that other people have. I, too, am a chronic over thinker. It makes it nearly impossible to make decisions because my brain tries to run through all possible outcomes until I'm paralysed from over-analysing it all. I also have a compulsion to go back over every choice I've ever made in my life and second-guess myself. Right now I'm going through some mood-swings and feeling generally low, which is almost certainly due to peri-menopause, but knowing that doesn't stop me from wondering if I'd be happier now if I'd done this or that differently, and then my thoughts spiral out of control. I convince myself I should have pursued a different career or married a different man and then everything would have been better...and then beat myself up for doing everything in my life wrong! There is nothing wrong with my life - I like my job and I'm happily married - or at least I was until my hormones went berserk. I'm on HRT but I need to learn how to control obsessive, unhelpful thoughts and stop wishing my life away!