The mind’s remarkable ability to analyze and process information serves as both a gift and a potential source of distress. Mental health professionals increasingly recognize how overthinking, ...

Have you ever replayed a recent conversation with a stranger to the point that you couldn’t sleep? Or reread the message 5 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Overthinking is the habit of excessively analyzing, dwelling on ...

Based on my counseling clients who struggle with what they describe as overthinking, I can best describe it as the mental equivalent of spinning your wheels. They use a lot of psychic energy going ...

Some of us want to make ourselves perfect for an imperfect world and imperfect people. Overthinking is the excessive preoccupation with a current, past, or future problem due to a lack of closure and ...

Overthinking is not a useful activity, yet most people do it to some extent. At work or in our business, it can be a serious hinderance. An email arrives and we read into every line, trying to ...

I overthink everything. I will often replay conversations in my head for months, thinking about whether I said the right thing or what I should have said instead. I analyse – or agonise – over ...