Overthinking & Rumination
For the mind that keeps going over the same thing.
Overthinking feels like work. You turn the same conversation over, find one new angle, and for a second it looks like progress. Two hours later you're in the same spot with less energy and the same problem. That has a name. It's called rumination, and it isn't a discipline problem.
This module covers what rumination is, and how it differs from thinking something through. How to stop overthinking without fighting your own head. How to journal when anxiety has you awake at three in the morning, and which journal prompts for anxiety help at that exact hour. How to fill in a thought record. And which cognitive distortions keep talking you into the worst version of events.
The underlying idea is small. Circling leaves no trace; writing does. What you write can be looked at the next day, when you're no longer inside it. That's where a conversation that ran in your head for three nights turns into something you can review.
The how-to-stop-overthinking lesson is the way in. The one on journaling for anxiety is the one you'll want at three in the morning.
This module is still blank.
I'm writing it one lesson at a time, and I'd rather publish late than publish filler. The glossary already has terms that carry across this module, so start there.