HOW OVERTHINKING INTERFERES WITH YOUR SLEEP?

Brigita Kuhar

Brigita Kuhar
27.11.2019

We all have experienced sleepless nights when something is bothering us so much that it’s impossible to stop thinking about it. This disrupted sleep is not serious provided it does not repeat every night.

When experiencing successive sleepless nights over a period of time, worrying about things and how to resolve them, we might be developing a condition commonly known as Overthinking.

According to Dr. Jeffrey Huttman, Ph.D psychologist; “Overthinking is the process of constantly analysing one’s thoughts, including reflections which an individual is stuck mentally repeating their past or present resolutions and/or actions.”

HOW TO IDENTIFY IF YOU ARE AN OVERTHINKER?

If you have experienced thoughts and problems similar to the following, you might be a Overthinker:

“What if” is your common thought.
You can’t stop thinking of some embarrassing event that happened to you and thinking about it repeatedly.
You are searching for the hidden meaning in what people are telling you
You are worrying about things that happened in the past or could happen in the future, and therefore your mind is often not in the present.
You can’t sleep at night because as it’s become impossible to stop thinking about and analysing different situations and problems.

As an overthinker you realise that over-analysing your past, present and potential future events has become the norm to the point it is annoying and exhausting to continuously live like this, day after day.

“Running away thoughts” start at night, when everyone else is sleeping. Your brain tortures you with the ”could have, should have, would have” of your life events

Choosing not to deal with this condition can seriously damage your quality of life leading to

Sleeping disorders

Anxiety

Interfering with your problem-solving skills because you are “living in your head”

HOW TO DEAL WITH OVERTHINKING

Let’s admit it, dealing with Overthinking is not easy. Many sufferers don’t even know how to stop overthinking as it becomes a part of us, something that we think is normal and “it is the way it is”. This approach is unproductive, time consuming and won’t solve your problems.

Here you can find expert advice on what to do when you can’t turn off your thoughts at night.

If you want to stop your overthinking, try following these steps.

GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD, START LIVING YOUR LIFE TO THE MAXIMUM AND FINALLY GET SOME SLEEP!

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