Anxiety: Overthinking, Worry and Rumination (Episode 026)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Are you a worrier? Overthinker? Can't stop ruminating? Do you use thinking as your go-to problem-solving and protection tool, then hate that you can't stop thinking? This week Josh and Drew tackle worry, overthinking, and rumination. This is a topic near and dear to many anxious people in our community so it's high time we talk about it.
We'll talk about what overthinking, worry and rumination really are, why it seems like you should overthink or worry, and why this is just an anxious, frightened mind demanding that you problem-solve to stay safe. In the end, does thinking actually do anything but fool us into thinking that we're doing something? Tune in to find out!
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| 0:00.0 | For conventional anxiety, thinking and problem solving is great. |
| 0:06.0 | However, with disordered anxiety, the rumination and overthinking then becomes a compulsive safety behavior to try and rid us of a feeling that we want, you know, to get rid of immediately. |
| 0:18.0 | It's our relationship with thinking. |
| 0:20.0 | Thinking is my go-to. I have to think. I have to keep thinking. But. It's our relationship with thinking. Thinking is my go-to. |
| 0:21.9 | I have to think. I have to keep thinking. But then I hate that I keep thinking. I love to think |
| 0:26.6 | because it keeps me safe, but then I wish I wasn't thinking. A solution that would work for anxiety |
| 0:33.3 | surrounding a problem that I could solve externally. and I was applying it to a cyclical |
| 0:38.5 | disorder anxiety presentation. |
| 0:40.7 | Why can't I get over this? |
| 0:42.5 | If you start asking yourself that question, why am I so stuck on this? |
| 0:45.9 | Why can't I stop thinking about this? |
| 0:47.5 | Well, there's a clue. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to Disordered. |
| 0:53.8 | Today's episode is on the topic of rumination, overthinking, and worry. |
| 0:59.3 | If you're happy and you know it, overthink, go and ruin it for yourself. |
| 1:03.9 | My name is Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh, and I'm a psychotherapist specializing in the world of anxiety disorders, and I'm based in |
| 1:12.3 | Manchester in the UK. And I am Drew Linzalata, the other co-host of Disordered. I'm a grad student |
| 1:18.0 | and clinical mental health counseling on route to being a licensed therapist in the state of New York |
| 1:22.3 | here in the good old US of A. I am an author, a podcaster, and a former sufferer of anxiety disorders |
| 1:27.0 | and depression for many |
| 1:27.8 | years. Welcome. Welcome. Before we get stuck into the juiciness of rumination, overthinking, |
| 1:36.5 | and worry, we do like to celebrate our community with their, did it anyway wins. |
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