Tagged: Anxiety and Overthinking

How Anxiety Fuels Rumination and What to Do

Overthinking can feel like problem-solving, but it often leaves people more anxious, more tired, and less clear than when they started. A person may replay a conversation, worry about what someone meant, imagine the worst possible outcome, or mentally rehearse every decision before taking action. At first, it can seem responsible. The mind says, "If I think about this long enough, I will finally f

I'll Always Trade My Rook to Keep My Knight. On why we need to stop pathologizing the people-pleasers of this world.

I want to talk about people-pleasing, but not in the way it usually gets talked about. I'm tired of the version that frames it as a personality quirk, a boundary problem, or a self-esteem issue we just need to do the work on. That framing skips over the most important thing, which is that people-pleasing is a survival strategy that worked. It equated to safety, and sometimes to love, which kind of

EMDR Therapy for Anxiety: How It Works and Who It Helps

It’s likely you’ve heard of EMDR before, even if you don’t know exactly what it is. And if you have heard of it, odds are you’ve heard it’s commonly used for processing trauma.   Whether you’ve heard about it or not, EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a highly effective form of therapy that uses bilateral stimulation (eye

OCD and Alcoholism: My Answer to Life's Uncertainties