The Gap Your Mind Cannot Leave Alone

Overthinking seems like the most common affliction of our time. It can, however, cripple your life in more ways than you can imagine. It messes with your head. It disrupts your sleep. It gives you headaches, migraines in extreme cases. The ripple effect is severe. Mental pain soon begins to reflect in your physical appearance. It translates into bodily fatigue. Overthinking is not just thinking too much. You are thinking too many things. Even things that never happened. Your mind cannot tolerate uncertainty. Your brain does not like to sit with anxiety. It feels threatened, which triggers a loop of filling that uncertainty. This filling happens through either chasing more information or fabricating it. The latter is more dangerous. Your brain also loves to fill in the gaps on its own. This is the most significant hazard of overthinking. Whether you are infatuated with someone or plainly furious at them, your brain processes the situation the same way. It treats uncertainty as a…