WHY PEOPLE HAVE FEAR, WORRY AND OVERTHINKING?

MY EXPERIENCE

                     Due to hating myself, I stopped believing myself. I couldn't believe that I will ever be able to stand again. My hands used to shake while typing a text message to someone, my voice used to crack, my heartbeats used to rise like anything. Later I realized that it was panic attacks! I was badly scared of something. I didn't want people to notice me. I want to put myself into a shell, forever...! 

                    I forgot how I used to smile, how I used to talk, how I used to make jokes and laughing like anything. At a time, I also felt that I never can meet the previous me again, the 'uninteresting' me, the "interesting but happy" me. I was thinking a lot. Overthinking sucked my life. I used to worry a lot. I was just stuck in "what will happen, if..." trauma. 

OVERTHINKING AND NEGATIVE THOUGHTS

                    It all happens with us. We keep thinking about the results before even doing it, mostly about the negative results. Since we are under-prepared for that circumstances, it makes us feel worried. See, we have to understand the consequences always will be there in the same ratio. The possibility of good results and bad results are equal. So the things which gonna work are gonna work, and the things which require more effort will require more effort. But since we want it to be worked, we have to put the effort in the way it's gonna work! All we can do is this and nothing else! Sometimes, just because of strong consideration of consequences, we cannot put efforts as much as we could put if we were not thinking about it. 

FEAR AND ANXIETY

                    We have to understand that fear and worry are like best friends. If one comes, another is gonna come anyway. Worry brings fear, and fear brings more fear, and the more you are scared, the more you gonna worry about it! So it is a kind of loop. It keeps rotating until you leave both of them. 

FEAR OF RESULTS

                      Fear and anxiety rise when you are running from something badly, trying to save yourself from something! Anxiety rise you think that something is not under your control, you wanted it to be! So one just be anxious about saving from some embarrassing situations. Fear results due to consideration of possibilities of unwanted results. And it all keep rotating due to overthinking. That's the major side effect of overthinking, that you cannot get rid of something, even though you want to. Overthinking kills happiness. 

                      In such cases, understand that your every single situation, every single action is under your control. Nothing is gonna get spoil without your permission, without your choice. But the more you think that you gonna mess something, or you run from something, the more thoughts about it gonna run in your head. 

CONCLUSION

                     So just be calm, be optimastic while thinking, and trust your actions. Watch things neutrally, as they are and act according to it. Don't thing about such hypothetical situations which are even not gonna happen.

                       So take care of your mind, take care of your body, take care of yourself! Let's take a step towards self-awareness of mental health. We are taking a stand for mental health awareness among youth, mental health awareness among kids, mental health awareness among women, mental health awareness among seniors! Let's take a step towards peace, together! It's just depression, give it a way to get out of your head. Have faith, have patience, stand strong. This shall too pass!

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