How to Escape the Trap of Overthinking & Rumination

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We all overthink. The presentation you have to give to the department leaders on Monday. The argument you had with a colleague last week. Missing your son’s recital. Being late for your daughter’s big game and missing her scoring the winning goal. Things you should have said or shouldn’t have.

Most overthinking is relatively harmless. Eventually, something draws our focus and our thinking shifts. But at other times it can be debilitating. A person finds the entrance to a thought loop but is unable to find the exit. Their distress heightens as they go around and around without a destination.

This overthinking is also called rumination and is a dominant symptom of both anxiety and depression. The person plagued with anxious thoughts repeatedly plays out every permutation of how a future event will end in disaster. The depressed thinker is haunted by regrets of actions and inactions of their past. In both cases, people get stuck on what they can’t control and influence.

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