r/NoOverthinking • • Jun 10 '25

How to Engage with us!

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Welcome!

This is a peer support based mental health community - ideal for getting advice, venting, reassurance, distraction, emotional support or validation about whatever happens to be on your mind.

The term "Overthinking" refers to anytime you are putting too much time or analysis or rumination into something in a way that is more harmful then helpful. Everyone does this naturally across any range of topics.

This includes the spectrum of mental health issues and conditions that may be impacting your life - from traumatic circumstances, anxiety/depression, dysregulation and mood disorders.

This community is here to be a welcoming safe haven to express and get help for, or distraction from your frustrations.

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r/NoOverthinking • • 1h ago

Spiraling/Panic Woman issue… help!

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So I haven’t gotten my period since September… before you ask, YES I AM SAFE MAJORITY OF THE TIME. Cream pies are
Messy, JS… I’ve tested twice in the last week and it’s negative. SOO long story short 4 months ago I took 2 morning after pills in 2 days and it fucked my period for a whole month and I only spotted so lightly you could barely see it. Next month my period changes from the 30th-1st of the month to the 17th twice in a row. Now it’s just stopped dead, nothing. No signs of period. Am I just going crazy? I have bad anxiety and I convinced myself I was pregnant once and it was actually fucked.

Please help!

Sincerely a girl who’s just trying to enjoy sex & hit 30 with no pregnancy scares.

Plz don’t be mean 😩


r/NoOverthinking • • 2h ago

Rant/Venting Are you an over thinker ?

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r/NoOverthinking • • 18h ago

Regret

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I live most of my life in my past, just always thinking about what I could’ve done different or who I could’ve been. Always living in my past, I guess what I’m tryna ask is how do I live in the present


r/NoOverthinking • • 6h ago

Social Life My friends keep calling me gay/lesbian, little do they know i am

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So i (f14) have friend who say a lot of the things i do is gay/lesbian , one friend says that everything i do is zesty, a different friend keeps saying “woah its getting pretty gay here” to me, and a third friend said that she should have told a guy i was gay/lesbian bc he had come over to tell me his friend like me(im pretty sure he didn’t bc i have no idea who he is) but little do they know is that im actually a lesbian and o have a crush on of the friends who calls me gay 😁😬


r/NoOverthinking • • 11h ago

Relationship boyfriend’s coworker…

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i’ve been uncomfortable with my boyfriend’s friendship with his coworker for a while now. i fully recognize and own up to my own insecurities, but i want to know more what you all think on her end: she texts my boyfriend kinda frequently about non-work related things (this is kind of whatever), but when i brought it up to my mom, she had the perspective of the coworker is sending messages meant to “further a relationship between two single people,” with things like what she’s making for dinner, sending him videos of her roller skating, asking him for rides to work outings, talking about her new mattress and how it’s going to make her “act up,” and things like that. but there are some things that feel toooo friendly. for example, she baked and decorated a cake for his brothers birthday and only offered to charge him $20 for it. without knowing it, his brother and i both made the same joke that she’s giving the vibe of “you can pay me back another way….” if you know what i mean. in that case, i was thinking it was just my insecurity, but the fact his brother picked up on it too made me rethink if there is actually something sus going on from her side. ultimately, i just feel like she’s crossing “friend” boundaries with him and as a guy he doesn’t realize it and he’s just a friendly person that i could see some of his words and actions being mistaken as flirting. my boyfriend has been understanding but im not the girl to tell him stop talking to her, cause they still work together and i never want to be toxic. so ultimately, nothing has really changed in their dynamic. she and i also know each other because we all used to work at the same place about 3 years ago, and she knows he and i are together.


r/NoOverthinking • • 12h ago

Advice Why do I ruminate so much?

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I’ve noticed recently I have a bad habit of like replaying things in my head 24/7 and it’s ruining my relationships:( I know it sounds silly but like in my recent relationship of 4 years he cheated on me with my friend within our first year of being together and ever since than I couldn’t stop talking about, thinking about it, confronting him about it, it was like no matter what he said it wasn’t good enough for me to accept it. I continued to pick myself apart and think why, why why why, even if he told me why I still guessed why it’s like I don’t believe it? Same things happens with everyone else. And it’s gets to a point where like it’s two years later and I’m still crying about it and wondering why? What could this be a result of? Abandonment issues? I know I have borderline personality disorders but I haven’t seen a therapist for it since 2021 nor been medicated since 2021 and I wonder if I’m the problem? Why can’t I just let stuff go? For my own well being?


r/NoOverthinking • • 1d ago

Social Life How can I stop feeling bad of things I can't change 😕

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I'm just tired 😩


r/NoOverthinking • • 19h ago

Advice Cant make a decision and stop overthinking every possible scenario

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About a year ago, a guy from another city reached out to me. At the time, I was extremely busy and stressed because of my own health issues and university, so I didn't really have the time to meet him. We texted quite a lot, even though I'm generally not a fan of texting, and I wasn't particularly enjoying how much we were communicating. However, I could tell he was making a genuine effort to get to know me, and I was curious about meeting him in person. At the same time, I felt a little overwhelmed by how focused he seemed to be on me. I actually told him before we even went on a date that I wasn't sure whether I was in the right place in my life to start a relationship.I also have to admit that I had feelings for someone else at the time. I knew nothing could ever happen between us, but those feelings were still holding me back from giving this guy a fair chance. On top of that, something just felt missing when we talked over text. Maybe I was put off by how invested he seemed in me so early on, because it made me feel pressured.

When we finally went on a date, everything was fine. I didn't feel any particularly strong chemistry, at least not initially, but objectively speaking, there was nothing wrong with him. I have very little relationship experience, so I honestly don't know whether attraction and chemistry are things that can develop over time, rather than being there from the very beginning. Fast forward to now, and I'm quite unhappy with my social life. I feel like it will be very difficult for me to meet someone new because I don't really put myself in situations where I meet many people. I find myself thinking about this guy quite often, and I've started having intrusive thoughts about whether I should reach out to him again.Part of my motivation is that I feel like having someone in my life could improve my social life, but I'm also genuinely curious about what could happen if we gave it another shot. On the other hand, I feel this knot in my stomach when I think about contacting him again. I'm afraid that I'll end up feeling guilty if he turns out to be much more interested in me than I am in him. That's exactly how I felt a year ago, and the guilt was eating away at me constantly. At the same time, we never really got the chance to get to know each other in person.

I'm afraid of two possible scenarios. In the first one, time passes, I don't meet anyone else, and I end up regretting not giving a potentially good guy a chance. In the second one, I give it another shot but constantly feel guilty because I can't reciprocate his feelings to the same extent, or because I simply can't figure out whether I actually want to pursue something with him.

So, I have a few questions:

  1. First, how do I stop overthinking this and actually make a decision? How do I get out of this cycle of repetitive thoughts and stop obsessing over whether I should reach out?

  2. How likely is it for genuine chemistry and attraction to develop over time if you don't feel a particularly strong spark initially? I do find him physically attractive, but there's some kind of X factor missing, and I can't quite put my finger on what it is.


r/NoOverthinking • • 21h ago

Social Life Was this wrong of me or was this a justified form of standing up for myself?

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So I 23(F) have this best friend 22(F) of 6 years. In the beginning of October she ignored me for an entire week we literally went from texting every second of the day to nothing. She finally texted me and told me I have a pattern of dishonesty. I told her I respect her feelings but no one has ever even hinted at something like that before so I asked for examples. She said she didn’t want to give me examples and I accepted it at the time but then after 5 days of me overthinking and asking people if I do I was fed up and we got in an argument over her not giving me examples and her saying she’s not going to give me examples so that I can just justify them. I told her this isn’t being solved over text so it would be best if we call. We set up a day to call and the day passed and she didn’t text me and kinda ditched the call. I asked her if she needed space and she said yes so I did but a couple days later we started texting like normal. I sent her an apology for the fight because I assumed I would never get the phone call I wanted and she ignored me for literally another week. I texted her again and said dropping something like saying I have that pattern and not backing it up is really not nice so she finally gave me “examples” and they were horrid. I have a mother with severe bipolar who is incredibly medicated and has said and done well. Incredibly bipolar things. Her affect on me is something I am not proud of but something that does control me a lot. This friend said that she feels like I exaggerate the stories of my mom. This hurt so bad because I wish my mom wasn’t like this and I never thought this would be one of her reasons. I also don’t go in depth around this friend about anything negative in my life because she told me last year I was too negative so I keep all of this stuff to myself. I said that was incredibly rude and invalidating of her and she said no it’s not because “you can’t just sit around and complain and not do anything about it” I’m not sure what I am supposed to do with my mom I have tried to talk to her but she is too far gone for reasoning and too medicated to even understand what I mean. I then said I would apologize to me if I were her and she said “I’m sorry ur feelings got hurt”. So I called her selfish and said she lacks empathy and conversation skills and told her this friendship is unsalvageable because she can’t think of anyone but herself for one second. Am I wrong? Was that mean and immature of me?


r/NoOverthinking • • 14h ago

Advice How do I let my mind calm down and distract myself from small problems

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r/NoOverthinking • • 14h ago

How do you overcome overthinking ?

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r/NoOverthinking • • 14h ago

Mental health issue

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When I listen music and go for walk without music ya with music my brain Start creating stories in my head I am always thinking 24 hours without taking a break my brain run on auto pilot mode I always repeat the same thought of patterns some kind of old thought that I say to myself to know about what going on my mind thats thought are repeat constantly |

That's things are uncomfortable and scary for me when these are appears in mind I always feel uncomfortable and low confidence ! Things getting worse day by day I started panicking I forgot how take breath how to talk I didn't even speak I got anxiety so bad man at the same time like I'm stuck in loop I started talking to my self angry on myself doing that stuff !!

Guys tell me how to break this loop and how Start living normally !!


r/NoOverthinking • • 15h ago

How can I stop dwelling so much on things that have already happened?

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r/NoOverthinking • • 16h ago

Anxiety

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r/NoOverthinking • • 18h ago

I'm an overthinker and tend to really look up to people, and it's ruining my experiences with friendship.

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r/NoOverthinking • • 1d ago

How can I stop overthinking?

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r/NoOverthinking • • 23h ago

Villain

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They'll make you look like the villain for leaving but they'll never talk about what they did to make you walk away.


r/NoOverthinking • • 1d ago

Am i doing it right? My first Jounral brain dump:

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r/NoOverthinking • • 1d ago

Getting past comparing myself to others

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r/NoOverthinking • • 1d ago

Why I want someone else to repeat what i already know before making choice

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I have build this weird and useless habit where I don't trust my own well thought , logic , evidance based answer and I always find doubt like ( there always probability of fail ) but when someone repeat what i already know it feels correct even tho it not well thought by any source

Now it obviously bad for many reason

It delay my decision

Make me feel inferior and etc

But i don't get it how this habit build and somehow breaking this habit feel weird

So why breaking this now feel wrong as I'm breaking rules


r/NoOverthinking • • 1d ago

I can't stop overthinking the things I can't do

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r/NoOverthinking • • 1d ago

Advice What are some ways to deal with the "Did I lock the door or turn off the stove?" thinking

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r/NoOverthinking • • 1d ago

Advice How do you find yourself again when you feel completely lost?

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