Do you replay conversations for hours? Analyze every decision until you’re paralyzed? Feel exhausted by your own thoughts? In this episode of Beyond the Red House, we dive into the mental exhaustion of overthinking. Why trauma survivors do it, how it’s connected to survival mechanisms, and practical strategies for when your brain won’t give you a break.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

- Why overthinking is a trauma response, not a personality flaw

- How hypervigilance from childhood becomes chronic overthinking in adulthood

- The difference between productive thinking and rumination

- Why overthinking doesn’t actually protect you the way you think it does

- Practical strategies to interrupt thought spirals

- How to set boundaries with your own brain

- Why mental rest is just as important as physical rest

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