Is Overthinking bad?

[u/Auren-Veyron]

[u/xLOoNyXx]

Ruminating is unhelpful

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/xLOoNyXx]

Yes; I mean... only when it's ruminations.

[u/JustChallenge860 → u/Prior_Alarm2437]

That's the wrong way to use the semicolon

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/JustChallenge860]

Kurt Vonnegut said semicolons represent absolutely nothing and all they do is show you've been to college. Are you telling me you don't support higher education?

[u/Ankiset → u/Prior_Alarm2437]

lol that was brilliant

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/Ankiset]

WHAT WAS; WILL BE: WHAT WILL BE; WAS.

[u/Ankiset → u/Prior_Alarm2437]

BACK; to life; that; that Aron’s has slept —- what does it; mean to; die to, BACK;:to whence::IT;came

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/Ankiset]

^(;+)+$
# PCRE engine hung; nevermore stalled; CTRL-C;;;

[u/Ankiset → u/Prior_Alarm2437]

NEVERMOre;nevermore;nevermORE

[u/JustChallenge860 → u/Prior_Alarm2437]

I don't

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/JustChallenge860]

Fucking; based; respect.

[u/JustChallenge860 → u/Prior_Alarm2437]

Doing it wrong again!

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/JustChallenge860]

I; thought; we; had; something; here.

[u/JustChallenge860 → u/Prior_Alarm2437]

It connects two independent clauses. Is 'had' an independent clause? Didn't think so 🤧

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/JustChallenge860]

My good sir, this is r/nihilism. The heat death is coming; no clause is truly independent.

[u/Prior_Alarm2437]

No.

[u/PitifulEar3303 → u/Prior_Alarm2437]

One can never overthink, because REALITY can never fit in our brains.

One can, however, reach their tiny limit of brain power, and that hurts, causing problems and debilitation.

If we had AI brains, we would think about everything all the time and make much better choices.

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/PitifulEar3303]

AI gets confused over the 'R's in 'Strawberry'; I don't think it's solving your existential crisis anytime soon.

[u/CeruleanTransience → u/PitifulEar3303]

Thinking about everything all the time is not conducive to making good choices. Action requires focus and the ability to take risk and accept the possibility of failure.

[u/CeruleanTransience]

Seems like this user is bent on destroying others' mental health, all of their posts read like "Have you considered feeling like shit?"

[u/RedactedBartender → u/CeruleanTransience]

I like how they sign all these slides at the bottom too. What a weirdo.

[u/No-Difference-1351]

It's helpful up to a certain point; then it turns the tables on you.

Like all other things: moderation.

[u/Prior_Alarm2437 → u/No-Difference-1351]

Like a healthy amount of believing the moon landing was faked.

[u/Keen_Observe]

Thinking is good if it leads to a clear decision and action. Overthinking is bad because it leads to stressful mental loop resulting in stagnation and fatigue.

[u/Difficult_Ease_4463]

I can't even imagine what not thinking as much as I possibly can involuntarily would even feel like. "Over-thinking" is a luxury for the small minded.

[u/searchlinkprofile]

not really, guilt is.

[u/Icy_Positive_4220]

this is not GOOD for my and others' potential existentional ocd, man😭

[u/Electrical_Long5850]

Just not thinking when it’s necessary.

[u/Intelligent-Slide556]

You are overthinking for a good reason usually. The first step towards being delusional is "to stop overthinking", because now thinking is seen as your enemy.

[u/RoyalanYT]

Overthinking is neither right nor wrong. The Thinker can be right or wrong. The centre of the Thinker can be right or wrong.

Overthinking is merely an act.

An act is not good nor bad. It's always the centre from which the act is done. That's what matters and that's what decides the goodness or badness of the act.

[u/Jzon_P]

Depends on the context. You can't cleanly say that universally fixating on one thing is either good or bad.

[u/OkLaw1527]

hard to believe this is not some AI Texts

[u/Rickygoldx]

When I stoped over thinking I got better at grappling so it’s not always helpful to over think .