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56: Overthinking Is Ruining My Life - Why We Overthink, the Damage Overthinking Does and How to Stop Doing It

Trying Not to Care

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Our brain seeks answers even if the answers are really fucked up. And a lot of the time our brain fills in those blanks with past experiences because our brain also likes patterns. What it all comes down to is fear. We're scared of not being in control and we're scared of being hurt. Our ego is trying to protect us. So we overthink and we over protect ourselves before anyone else can. But like I said, if it was easy to just turn your brain off or replace your thinking with positive thinking, literally every person on the planet would do that but it's not that easy"

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