Dear human, thank you for sharing and reaching out. It is completely understandable that your overthinking is causing stress and irritation, which is taking a toll on you. It must have been difficult for you to handle this and I appreciate your effort to reach out for help. Overthinking is quite common and it could be because of many reasons like anxiety, fear, self-doubts, traumatic events, stress itself, etc.
Few techniques that might be of help:
1.Keep a journal handy and put the thoughts down as is, whenever she is in the midst of such thoughts.
2. Try identifying the triggers for your overthinking because awareness of these triggers or warning signs helps in consciously reducing them and also avoiding those triggers or distracting from them.
3. 5-4-3-2-1 exercise - Whenever you feel like you’re getting into the spiral of overthinking or you feel stressed out, take few slow and deep breaths and name five things in your environment that you can see, four things that you can hear, three things that you can touch, two things that you can smell and one thing you can taste.
4. Try focusing on your hobbies and interests or anything that you love to do. It can be as simple as taking a walk, watching a movie, reading a book, playing a game, etc.
As there is not sufficient information to identify the thinking patterns, we could get on a session and discuss further.
Next Steps
Please book an appointment with me via practo, we could go about understanding the underlying reasons for overthinking and how it can be resolved.
Hope to hear from you soon. Take care :)