The REAL Reason You Can’t Stop Overthinking and How to Stop

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Overthinking is a problem. Like, a really big problem.

Overthinking doesn’t get you anywhere. Point, blank, and period. It’s a waste of time yet so many of us are caught in its grasps hour after hour, day after day. What gives? Why do we have this incessant need to just want to figure things out? We engage in endless rumination worrying about how we can get from A to B, or why that guy hasn’t text us back, or what the best move is in regards to situation X, without actually getting anywhere. If overthinking did what we intended it to do, we would all be problem-free but that is not the case. If anything, overthinking drags us further into the pits of our problems.

Where does this incessant need to think about things come from?

It all comes down to control

At the core, human beings are wired for control and to seek certainty. After all, it’s only logical. In our ancestor’s minds, certainty meant survival. Certainty…