{"id":28583,"date":"2025-08-04T09:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28583"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:10:42","slug":"what-should-i-do-if-i-often-overthink-about-things-and-its-kinda-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/08\/04\/what-should-i-do-if-i-often-overthink-about-things-and-its-kinda-annoying\/","title":{"rendered":"What should I do if I often overthink about things and it&#8217;s kinda annoying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW080425-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW080425-1.jpg\" alt=\"What should I do if I often overthink about things and it's kinda annoying\" class=\"wp-image-28580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW080425-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AW080425-1-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What should I do if I often overthink about things and it&#8217;s kinda annoying<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We all overthink sometimes, which means following our own thoughts exclusively when we could be trying some other strategy to figure things out. Here are a few of many possible alternatives: 1. ask yourself what you&#8217;re <em>feeling<\/em>. If you&#8217;re not sure, here&#8217;s something to help you figure it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/wheel-emotion.\">bit.ly\/wheel-emotion<\/a>. 2. do something else for a few hours or days and come back to it. 3. phone a friend for a new perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all overthink sometimes, which means following our own thoughts exclusively when we could be trying some other strategy to figure things out. Here are a few of many possible alternatives: 1. ask yourself what you&#8217;re feeling. If you&#8217;re not sure, here&#8217;s something to help you figure it out: bit.ly\/wheel-emotion. 2. do something else for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/08\/04\/what-should-i-do-if-i-often-overthink-about-things-and-its-kinda-annoying\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What should I do if I often overthink about things and it&#8217;s kinda annoying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28603,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583\/revisions\/28603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}