That dread could crop up moments after you leave home, even if you’d said out loud to yourself, “I definitely turned off the oven.” Maybe you clearly remember turning off the oven or unplugging the hair dryer before leaving home, but unless you see a picture from that day right before you left, that stark fear you forgot may persist.
“I can know something, but I always have a doubt whether it's true or not,” Maidenberg describes to Inverse. The third type of overthinking has an “obsessional quality.” While rumination can be marked by obsessive, repetitive thoughts, Maidenberg distinguishes obsessional overthinking by an unshakeable, irrational doubt. Worry makes us fixate on the future, overpreparing to minimize uncertainty even to the point of diminishing returns. Rumination, Maidenberg says, primarily focuses on replaying past events and analyzing interactions. The way these butterflies gather, so to speak, can be defined within three broad categories of overthinking, according to clinical psychiatry professor Emanuel Maidenberg at the University of California, Los Angeles’ David Geffen School of Medicine. LONGEVITY HACKS is a regular series from Inverse on the science-backed strategies to live better, healthier, and longer without medicine. Overthinking can even make us doubt our ability to do something we’ve done a thousand times. Those who grapple with spending too much time in their heads know just how much easier daily living is when their inner monologue settles down even a little. Overthinking has real, long-term consequences for our health. The characters contemplate losing themselves among the cloud of wings: “All these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse me, and I might lose me.”Īnd then, a lilting refrain that gently flutters along: “It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay.” Kids - and adults - don’t always find the tools necessary for dealing with the bombarding cacophony of one’s thoughts, so a strategy in the form of a sweet little song can help us through the dark. Perhaps you face a whole swarm of butterflies at once, or only one gets in your face but takes all your attention. In the episode, intrusive thoughts appear in the form of glowing white butterflies. (I suppose the entirety of Homer Simpson is a warning against alcoholism.) One didactic episode of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe offers an affirming, musical lesson not on how to deal with more common topics like peer pressure or drugs but rather overthinking and worry. The Simpsons has an episode dedicated to the perils of childhood obesity and another one on smoking. Cartoons love the occasional cautionary, real-world tale.
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