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How to stop overthinking everything to have a better life

How to stop overthinking everything to have a better life

How to stop overthinking everything to have a better life. Here we go with another self-development post. And today, I would like to talk about something I struggled with. I still struggle with this, but I found a way of dealing with it.

Today’s post will share some things I like to do, which greatly help me. So, I will share items from experience, which is my favorite, because I want to share what I learn with you guys.

I’m sure many people now know what overthinking is, but I will go through it quickly. Hopefully, you will find it helpful somehow to you. And mention some crucial points as well. This way, it can be extra tips for you.

Don’t forget to share what you think of these tips after reading them. Also, I will explain and mention more about each end to make it easy for you to understand more about each one, which helps me.

How to stop overthinking everything to have a better life

Table of Contents

  • How to stop overthinking everything to have a better life
  • 1. Never judge anything based on your thoughts
  • 2. Seek the actual information or thoughts
  • 3. Remain positive and maintain it
  • 4. Learn more about overthinking and write notes
  • 5. Avoid thinking a lot and ask a friend for help
  • Conclusion of how to stop overthinking everything to have a better life
How to stop overthinking everything to have a better life

Well, let’s start by mentioning a little about overthinking. This is not an illness, but it can hurt your life. It’s when you overthink something or someone.

You keep thinking for a long time and have too many thoughts at once. That is something we don’t need in Our lives. Sometimes it can lead to negative results or affect you badly. So, the question is how to stop it.

What I will mention in this post will help you with that, however, since there are many things we could overthink.

Some things might need more and might not be on the list. Therefore, I mentioned something in the list that can help you stop overthinking everything to have a better life, even if it’s a particular case for you.

One thing I would highly recommend is determining the things which you keep overthinking. It will be an excellent start to finding ways to stop it; no matter what, you will be able to find the way.

How to know you are overthinking?

  • Exaggerating about something
  • Feeling worried and have a lot of thoughts
  • Thinking too fast about things in life
  • Deciding and judging too quickly without proof
  • Keep asking yourself too many questions

Overthinking is not easy to stop, and it won’t happen overnight. It took me a lot of time to do things and follow the ways I will mention in this post.

Maybe it won’t be that easy to stop it but make it less so you can have a

better life.

And you will be overcome and never let it control you. You have to know this because sometimes it won’t be easy to stop it completely, which is possible if you keep practicing these things and more.

Q: Can I stop it and control the situation after I lose control and overthink a lot?

A: You can always stop and control it. As long as you know how to do it. Make sure to improve your knowledge to be able to do it. Also, it’s a practice, so you still need to practice it. After that, you are overcoming and stopping it in any situation will be easy.

There are several things that you would overthink. But in this post, it will be in general, which can help you overthink everything.

If you want to be more specific, there will be more things and ways to help stop it. So, research if you want to be more specific about overthinking.

1. Never judge anything based on your thoughts

Thoughts written on a book
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

So, the first one is my favorite, and I had to make it a habit. One thing overthinkers would do is judge things, and I know that because it happened to me.

Instead of judging things based on your thoughts, you can learn more about them. Don’t waste your time considering anything, whether it’s good or how it looks, what they would do if it’s someone.

You can either find out by asking or going through it. Learn more about it before you judge, or no need for judgment. And I’m sure it will be different from what you think. Unless you already know a lot about it.

Why do you need to avoid judging others?

  • Help you avoid conflicts between you and others.
  • Avoid bad judgments that would result in you being alone
  • Make good memories with people without any judgments
  • Create a good habit of only seek for the truth of things
  • No need for more trouble with others and arguments

I always used to judge things, and it kept me in a loop of overthinking. Which leads to more and longer overthinking. But avoiding this will help stop overthinking everything to have a better life.

If you don’t know much about the person or things, take time to learn more about them before overthinking. This is important when it comes to some situations.

For example, you are thinking about going out with that friend or doing something you have never done. You would overthink a lot before doing it, which is not good.

It will waste your time when you can save time by doing something to help you to stop it.

2. Seek the actual information or thoughts

Sometimes we overthink, but if you want to stop it, you must seek the essential information or thoughts.

Maybe it could be a feeling or anything you would overthink instead of trying to find the truth about something.

Make sure to seek and learn the actual thoughts. And you would need this in a lot of situations.

It could be a thought of someone or something. Maybe the information that you got from someone is not correct. And you would worry and overthink it.

But that is unnecessary because you can learn about the actual thing to stop overthinking.

I love to do this when I start overthinking how someone would feel about me or why someone did a specific thing to me.

That helps me a lot with accomplishing things to have a better life.

Q: What if you can’t get accurate information from many sources?

A: Well, this is a good question. I would say this is a rare situation and happens once over many times. But if this is the case, the best you can do is to let go—no need to overthink when you can’t get accurate information about it. And you don’t want to waste time and effort on something with no way to confirm it.

Take your time doing the right thing that can help you to stop. And instead of going around and around trying to find the truth. You can ask for or seek the actual item.

If it’s a good thing, that is nice, but if it’s terrible, you would know and move to the next step of dealing with it. I’ve been doing this for a long time, and now it’s a habit.

3. Remain positive and maintain it

Coming to the next one would be very important. This will apply to some situations where you overthink what is not good or something negative. You need to remain positive and maintain it throughout your overthinking session.

If you remain positive, you will find out by following the steps to determine whether it’s good.

One of my favorite quotes about positivity is…

“Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” —Jim Thompson

Before you go to a meeting or do something, you would overthink negatively, which can impact your process. But you will need to remain positive and maintain until you are done.

Stay positive all the time, no matter what. It will be an excellent way to overcome fear and learn about things that can help to have a better life.

Q: For how long should I maintain positivity? 

A: Simply for as long as you overthink. Even after you stop overthinking, always stay positive in your life. You will deal with things differently and in a better way. Things will get better as soon as this becomes a habit.

This is something that took me a while to master it. Because sometimes it’s challenging to stay positive. Therefore, expect it will be a while until you manage to do it.

And later, it will be an excellent way to stop overthinking everything to have a better life. However, please don’t stop trying and trying until you achieve it.

4. Learn more about overthinking and write notes

writing notes about How to stop overthinking everything
Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash

I mentioned earlier that you need to determine what you overthink. However, that is one of the first steps to stop it. There are a lot of things and different ways to deal with them. So, make sure that you study and learn a lot about it.

You will find tips that can help with overcoming what you overthink.

Do your research about how to stop overthinking about that specific thing. More people share their experiences, which can also help.

There are a lot of things that you would learn from doing the research and more about how to stop it. A great way how to stop overthinking everything to have a better life.

Sometimes we need to improve our knowledge to do that.

Make sure to write notes to help you in the future. Maybe when it happens again, you can refer to your messages and know what things should be done to stop it.

So, it’s good to write notes and learn to stop overthinking everything to have a better life, which we need to do for a particular case of overthinking.

5. Avoid thinking a lot and ask a friend for help

Two girls talking with each other at the beach
Photo by Joshua Sazon on Unsplash

A lot of times, I kept thinking and thinking with no results. Sometimes It gets worse when it’s nothing. However, when I asked my friend, she helped me with it.

And made it easy to deal with the thing I wanted to do. So, asking a friend is helpful and can save you time.

Q: How can I find the best person to ask for help?

A: Depending on what you need help with. Make sure the person understands you and listens to you because these types would help you.
Check your friends and family members. Sometimes you might’ve talked to someone before, but not friends, and you know they can help you. If the person knows about it, that will help. Also, the friend could be a therapist, your last option if you have no one.

Benefits of asking a friend for help with how to stop overthinking everything:

  • Save you the time fighting and overthinking
  • Give suggestions to help with it in the future
  • Help you avoid getting into more troubles from this
  • Good in some difficult situations to stop overthinking

Maybe a friend can help with a good suggestion that can be the one you are looking for.

Asking a friend can help in some situations of overthinking. I’m sure some people have already tried this way and stopped it.

Therefore, I don’t know to explain a lot how it can help do better when it comes to overthinking to have a better life. Make sure to ask the right friend, even if you have many of them.

Friends around and who know you better can be a good option. But the way of communication should be through talking with each other.

Don’t use texting because you will keep overthinking everything, even when texting with a friend.

Conclusion of how to stop overthinking everything to have a better life

How to stop overthinking everything to have a better life

Thank you so much for reading until this point. I hope these things can help you with overthinking. It might be everything, but it can’t be anything since some cases are unknown.

But whatever you overthink, I’m sure there is an excellent way to deal with it if it’s not on this list.

What do you think of these tips and ways to stop overthinking? Do you have other methods that can help you to prevent it?

Let us know in the comment, and it could be helpful to people who are reading the comments.

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Written by - October 31, 2022
Tags | How to stop overthinking everything, Self improvement, tips for overthinking

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63 Comments

  • Beth November 1, 2022 at 12:11 am

    I love these tips! The best thing you can do to stop overthinking is to learn as much as you can. Go with facts, not your fears.

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  • Richie November 1, 2022 at 12:11 am

    Some useful tips there for preventing overthinking. Remaining positive is beneficial in many areas of life – banish those negative, pessimistic thoughts!

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  • Jenni @ I on Image November 1, 2022 at 12:11 am

    Very good advice as overthinking will eat your time and give you nothing in return. I used to do this too but now I am getting much better at putting those thoughts aside.

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 12:15 am

    Right? it's time consuming. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 12:16 am

    I agree we do need to do that. I appreciate you reading and commenting!

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 12:19 am

    That's right, we can't go based on fear. Thank you for reading!

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  • Sara | mshealthesteem.com November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    Overthinking can be so tough on someone's mental health! Love that you're sharing helpful tips to ease the effects. Thank you!

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  • Stephanie November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    I tend to overthink things a lot. Asking others for help is a big step in this. Sometimes they can ground me when I need it.

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  • Benny - The Stoic Padawan November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    Great post on an important topic. I also used to overthink a lot. But now I've managed to get better at controling it. For me it was philosophy that helped me get things better in check, but your points ring through. Our thoughts can takes us on journeys we don't really want. Digging deeper where they come from can help us with that. Thanks for sharing.

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  • Anonymous November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    Great suggestions! I often overthink things. JamieAdStories

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  • Patricia Chamberlain November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    These are all great tips! I really struggle with overthinking at times.

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  • Her Digital Coffee November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    Great advice! Taking a moment to write things down really helps me with overthinking. Thank you for sharing your tips!

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  • Katherine McLee November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    Great post! Overthinking can stop people enjoying life because of fear – sometimes some tips can really make a difference to our mindset!

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  • Unwanted Life November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    Journal about whatever it is you're overthinking so you can dump what's on your mind into your journal instead. I always found it an effective way to clear my mind

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  • Dana Vitolo November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    These her helpful tips about how to stop overthinking everything. I have a tendency to overthink, but it may have to do with my anxiety and worrying. I have found that journaling first thing in the morning helps me with this!

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  • thathappyreader November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    I tend to be an overthinker at times and agree that educating yourself to make the best decision is important. Thanks for sharing Fransic!

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  • Anonymous November 1, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    I really needed this post. I am the queen on overthinking! Great tips and ideas to help! Thank you for sharing!

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 11:54 pm

    I'm glad to know this is something you need. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 11:55 pm

    Yeah, we need to improve our knowledge. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 11:56 pm

    That's awesome, its nice to find a way to help deal with it. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 11:58 pm

    Journal help a lot with dealing overthinking. I appreciate you reading and commenting!

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    Thank you for the feedback and reading. I agree with you can make a difference.

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  • Fransic Verso November 1, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    I'm glad to know you find it great advice. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 2, 2022 at 12:01 am

    I'm sorry you struggle with and glad you find these great tips!

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  • Fransic Verso November 2, 2022 at 12:02 am

    Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts about it.

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  • Fransic Verso November 2, 2022 at 12:03 am

    Yay, that's awesome you managed to control it. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 2, 2022 at 12:04 am

    Right? it's very helpful to control it and overcoming it. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 2, 2022 at 12:05 am

    I agree with you, it's very importo take care of it before it damage our mental health a lot.

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  • Jocelyn @ Hip Mama's Place November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    Analysis paralysis is never good. It creates a lot of high stress and anxiety.

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  • Toria Pedro November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    Useful tips and thank you for the blog post. I am currently in the situation right now. A colleague who is friendly came to say in and I was so busy with work that i did not have the time to have a conversation. I had been overthinking since then. Judging my reaction as a rude one. So I'd go with your tip no 2 – Seek the actual thought.

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  • Brianna S November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    I am an overthinker for sure! I agree with you, its so important to work on this or it can consume you.

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  • Anonymous November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    I am an overthinker. I will try to use these tips to fix the problem. Thanks a lot for sharing it.

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  • Kat November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    I totally agree that overthinking can lead to nothing positive. Managing your mental health and prioritizing selfcare will do you wonders.

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  • Ntensibe Edgar November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    "Never judge anything based on your thoughts". Our thoughts can get very intense and that brings anxiety.

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  • Anonymous November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    These are great tips! I struggle with overthinking but I am actively working on finding solutions because overthinking just feels overwhelming. Thank you for sharing.
    -Angie Soul

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  • Anonymous November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    I so agree with you that we usually judge by our thoughts and this leads to bother only us. Loved the article!!

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  • Bryan Carey November 3, 2022 at 12:04 am

    Overthinking can be bad, yes. It is a result of being too risk averse. Sometimes, you just have to take a chance and go with your instincts. If you think too much, you will miss out on opportunities.

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  • Fransic Verso November 3, 2022 at 12:19 am

    Right? it's not good to be overthinker. I appreciate you reading and sharing your thoughts!

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  • Fransic Verso November 3, 2022 at 12:21 am

    I'm glad you loved this article. Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts!

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  • Fransic Verso November 3, 2022 at 12:21 am

    Thank you so much for reading and sharing your thoughts!

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  • Fransic Verso November 3, 2022 at 12:22 am

    Yeah, it can be source of the both. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 3, 2022 at 12:24 am

    I see, I hope these can help you. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 3, 2022 at 12:26 am

    Thank you for reading and sharing your thooughts. I hope it can help you with dealing being an overthinker.

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  • Fransic Verso November 3, 2022 at 12:27 am

    Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts!

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  • Claire Mac November 4, 2022 at 12:15 am

    I can be an over thinker in certain situations however generally I think I'm quite good and have the what will be will be attitude. I think a lot of it's down to keeping positive like you say!

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  • Autumnleaves November 4, 2022 at 12:15 am

    This article is very timely for me as I am dealing with mental stress and fatigue. The world is in such a chaotic state at the moment, it is overwhelming. Thank you.

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  • Anonymous November 4, 2022 at 12:15 am

    overthinking definitely contributes a lot towards lowering quality of life. you make a great guide and especially nicely covering the basis, I personally think the first steps are the hardest. Lyosha

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  • bye:myself November 4, 2022 at 12:15 am

    Oh my gosh, guilty as charged. I'm overthinking everything – and often rather the negative stuff. There are all those nasty people living for free in my head and I'm obsessing over them. I urgently need to learn how to just let go.

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  • Eunis November 4, 2022 at 12:15 am

    Awesome! In the Philippines, depression is really a challenging situation. Thank you for the reminder and good article.

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  • Carina November 4, 2022 at 12:15 am

    Really valuable tips. I also like to distract myself with music, working out, or work when I realize I overthink something.

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  • Lady In Read November 4, 2022 at 12:15 am

    so true.. it is better to write down your thoughts for once and then stop thinking about it. for we never know where overthinking will lead us…

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  • Fransic Verso November 4, 2022 at 12:20 am

    Yeah, I agree with that. I appreciate you reading and sharing your thoughts!

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  • Fransic Verso November 4, 2022 at 12:21 am

    Thank you so much for your lovely feedback. Well, what a good way.

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  • Fransic Verso November 4, 2022 at 12:22 am

    That's awesome. Well, at least you are not anymore. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 4, 2022 at 12:23 am

    I'm glad to know you find it a good article. I'm sorry about that situation.

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  • Fransic Verso November 4, 2022 at 12:25 am

    Well, I could say the same to me. I hope you will be able to do that. Thank you for reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 4, 2022 at 12:26 am

    Yeah, definitely it's not good to have in our life. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and reading!

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  • Fransic Verso November 4, 2022 at 12:27 am

    Ah, I'm glad to know that. Hope you will get out of it soon.

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  • Fransic Verso November 4, 2022 at 12:29 am

    Okay, that's awesome. I think you will do good. Thank you for reading!

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  • Marysa November 6, 2022 at 12:07 am

    Definitely makes sense not to overthink things when possible. Plus, I tend to worry myself sick over things because I'll fixate on them.

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  • Fransic Verso November 6, 2022 at 12:39 am

    Right? It's important to avoid overthinking!

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  • Simona ~ The Grumpy Olive November 19, 2022 at 2:52 am

    Fransic, this seems like it was written for me specifically! Overthinking is maybe my top issue and these tips will definitely help me overcome it x

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  • Fransic Verso November 19, 2022 at 3:17 am

    Haha, well… Glad to know these will help you. Thank you for reading!

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