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Why Thinking Too Much Hurts You #overthinking #humanbehavior #psychology #depression

The Alpha Mind0:49

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And never considered that thinking about your problems all the time and talking about your problems all the time lit literally make the problems grow.

That's right. I mean, it's the number one symptom of depression is what they call rumination. This pathological obsessing over your pain.

Yeah. That's why stuff like exercise, that's one of the reasons aside from chemical reasons, one of the reasons that doing anything, you know, that running errands is good for your mental health, getting out of your house and accomplishing anything is good for you.

But sitting around talking and thinking about your problems, that's a bad habit. And the best cognitive behavioral therapists and others, you know, the dialectical behavioral therapists, the ones who do really well with depression, the first thing they do is try to break that un that that bad pattern. But a lot of therapists just indulge.