Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, depending on where you are on the planet. This is Bill Nye,

and this is ill-advised by Bill Nye, which alliterates and assonates, if that's a word, at the same time,

which is rare in a podcast title. This is a podcast for people who panic every time the phone rings.

It's a refuge for the clumsy and the awkward.

If you are socially adept and enjoy healthy relationships, there's nothing for you here.

We've had questions from all over the planet, including, most recently, Mongolia.

From every corner in the world, people are yearning for answers, and unfortunately,

we have none of them. But I think just asking the question and having some kind of contact

with another human being is helping in some obscure way. We hope so. I will attempt to answer

your questions without actually making things worse.

Let's have a listen.

And don't tell me you weren't forewarned.

Hi, my name is Heather True Love.

I am from Pennsylvania and the United States.

I would like to ask, how do you manage when you get into an overthinking spiral. When you want to be thoughtful, you want to

consider all the perspectives and possibilities, but then it just becomes stymieing. Thank you very much.

Heather, I'm not sure about overthinking. I don't know that it isn't just something somebody made

up once.

It's a bit like moving on when people are supposed to move on from grief, from the loss of a partner or a family member.

I think it's a phrase, an idea that was invented by paid consultants and basically means shut up.

It basically means we've heard about that. Can we please talk about something else now? And with overthinking, I don't really understand what it means.

How can you overthink? How can you control your thoughts to that degree? If the phrase is just

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