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Last Updated: 4 years ago• Featured Tip
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Psychologist•Haridwar
Overthinking is to think about something too much or for too long. It is destructive and mentally draining. It can make you feel like you re stuck in one place, and if you don t act, it can greatly impact on your day-to-day life. It can quickly put your health and total well-being at risk. You don t sleep well because overthinking keep you awake at night.
Many people overthink because they are scared of the future. They have fears regarding losing a job, failure in exams, loss in business a...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Psychologist•Surat
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10 simple ideas to free yourself from overthinking.

1. Awareness is the beginning of change.

Before you can begin to address or cope with your habit of overthinking, you need to learn to be aware of it when it's happening. Any time you find yourself doubting or feeling stressed or anxious, step back and look at the situation and how you're responding. In that moment of awareness is the seed of the change you want to make.

2. Don't think of what can go wrong, but what c...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Psychologist•Ghaziabad
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Overthinking means to think about something for too long. We all tend to overthink over important or trivial matters whether we are making the right choices in life, or how to dress up for an outing. We wonder about several issues going on in our lives. All this is perfectly normal until it takes a toll on our mental health.

When the habit of overthinking arouses excessive thoughts about something so much that it causes stress, fear, anxiety or dread, and affects your ability to funct...more
Last Updated: 4 years ago• Featured Tip
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Psychologist•Gurgaon
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Overthinking means to think about something for too long. We all tend to overthink over important or trivial matters whether we are making the right choices in life, or how to dress up for an outing. We wonder about several issues going on in our lives. All this is perfectly normal until it takes a toll on our mental health.
When the habit of overthinking arouses excessive thoughts about something so much that it causes stress, fear, anxiety or dread, and affects your ability to function n...more
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Dear Mayank, Overthinking is not necessariliy a sign of OCD. However, assuming that your condition is indeed OCD, and it completely settles with fluvoxamine, the key thing to look for here is the duration of treatment. very often, the symptoms re-emerge because of premature stoppage of medicines. So first thing is to do a detailed interview and rectify these things. Psychotherapy (in the form of BT or CBT or CT) ca be done to make you self reliant and wean you off medications.But this will need ...more
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Homeopath•Vadodara
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It can be controlled by homoeopathic treatment if given after proper case taking.
But till then you may try taking homoeopathic medicine Coffea Cruda 200 1 dose stat. And report after 10 days.
But proper case taking is advisable.
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Psychologist•Pune
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The symptoms that you are mentioning could be a sign of obsessive compulsive disorder. I would like you to elaborate more on your symptoms.
What you need to know obsessive compulsive disorder can be a difficult, confusing experience. To overcome ocd, you need a clear understanding of how ocd works.
Obsessive compulsive disorder bedevils millions of people with repetitive thoughts and rituals. It's the ultimate doubter's disease. Overcoming ocd will require you to work differently with un...more
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Psychiatrist•Chennai
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Over thinking or obsessive thinking, whatever it is since the problem lies in thought, psychiatrist is the apt person you need to consult for remedy.
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This condition is called hypochondriasis. It can be cured permanently by homeopathy.
If you really have any problem that will be also removed.
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