Additional reasons why you may be overthinking

Let’s talk about some additional reasons that may be triggers for your overthinking thoughts.

In some of the previous blog posts, I’ve already shared some useful tips and advice related to overthinking, and today I wanted to share something that came into my head the other day.

If you still haven’t figured out why your overthinking appears, these may be the reasons as well:

1. Growing up in an unsafe environment. This is a very common reasons for many to trigger their overthinking pattern. If you are someone who had to think about your safety the entire childhood, it’s no wonder you are trying to figure everything out upfront with a purpose to save yourself from potential harm.
2. Taking adult duties why you were still a child. You had a lot of mental load to take care of, even when you were just a child. Your brain is trained to constantnly worry and complete the duties and responsibility of others.
3. Despite the fact that you gave your best, you still got hurt too many times. You may overthink with a purpose to escape being judged from others. This happens if you have a lot of memories from the past where you gave and showed your best, but others thought that wasn’t still enough.
4. Harshly judged for your past mistakes. If others have harshly judged you for your life mistakes, it may be that you’ve now started doing that by yourself.
5. Having to figure it out on your own. Most of your life, you’ve been left on your own to fight all those battles. By overthinking, you are trying to protect yourself and come up with the best decision and solution for every potential problem that may appear because you know very well that no one else will do it for you.
6. People always tried to make you feel like you’re not good enough. Those emotional vampires wanted to take more of you, but they couldn’t, so they tried to lower down your self esteem. Learn how to surround yourself with emotionally safe people.

How is this helpful to know? If you have recognized yourself in some of the statements above, maybe you can discuss them with your therapist and get your treatment in the right direction.