Overthinking

Over-thinking usually happens when you care a lot about something. Whether it is a girl, your safety, the consequences of yours or somebody else's actions, over-thinking just happens. It happens because we are scared of the unknown. We try to analyze the situation to the fullest.

"Why did this happen?" "What could I have done differently?" "What would he think?" "Is she thinking about me?" "Oh god, I messed up didn't I?"

It happens to all of us, more or less. To figure out the unknown and run through the scenarios in our mind for a time. It kills us inside when it happens. We become stressed and don't think straight. It can lead to doing stress-relieving and sometimes reckless things: drinking, smoking, having sex with strangers, playing basketball, talking to a friend, going on a run around the neighborhood, blowing up on a friend. Some of these activities will get your mind off of things...for a while, but the best way to handle these type of situations are to either do what you think will change what you are thinking about or to accept it for what it is. We all eventually have issues that we think heavily about. It's how you handle those issues that define you as a person.