Overthinking might not seem like a bad thing, as it is when you analyze and think a lot about things, situations, and decisions to be made. It isn’t always bad, except when the overthinking leads to a lot of stress in your life. This can definitely happen if you make overthinking a habit, that ultimately leads to excessive worry, fear, and anxiety.

Discourses 2.6.17-18  states For if you call what surrounds you circumstances, everything is a circumstance; but, if by this you mean hardships, where is the hardship, that whatever is born must die? The instrument is either a sword, or a wheel, or the sea, or a tile, or a tyrant. And what does it signify to you by what way you descend to Hades? All are equal; but, if you would hear the truth, the shortest is that by which a tyrant sends you. No tyrant was ever six months in cuting any man’s throat; but a fever often takes a year. All these things are mere sound, and the rumor of empty names.

Tere are some things to understand about overthinking and why you might need to switch up your mindset a little.