I am an overthinker not sure why but i’ve been that way for a long time. prior to say highschool i guess i wasn’t always this way. I was wondering though how it affects the rest of you that are also overthinkers in terms of WoW and or RL situations?
for me in WoW it just puts me in a lot of stress like i will overthink things such as class/race combo’s to min max despite i don’t even do content that will benefit that decision, not wanting to do content like M+ or arena’s because of what others might think of me skill wise, etc…
in real life it’s kind of the same issue but mostly just revolves around unnecessary stress. stressing over things that have solutions and or are things totally out of my reach. such as yesterday tried to put my spare tire on cause my tire cracked it needs to be changed otherwise i risk it popping while driving which isn’t safe for anyone. not only that i snapped a damn lug stud which i now have to fix but again is a safety issue as well. stressing over that bs both fixable with some time and money. nothing else really i could do but i’d be up all night just thinking about it.
I was wondering how some of you deal with this. like i said i’ve been like this for many years not sure what exactly triggered it as i haven’t been this way before i actually used to be carefree so to speak. for me i try to play WoW but just the thoughts doesn’t help.
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I just surrendered to nihilistic anti-natalist melancholy.
For me, throw in that overthinking with anxiety and depression!
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Honestly I overthink things a lot, but it doesn’t stress me out. I enjoy thinking about hypothetical situations for fun, and when I make a decision or choice I just figure whatever happens is the way it will be and I’ll deal with it. The way I look at it is once it happens you can’t go back and change it so why worry about it and stress over it. Note that is just my experience, I’m aware you can’t just poof your stress away. That is just the way of thinking I’ve always had and I live a stress free life in general.
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I’m the same way.
An example–I recently returned after leaving in 2012, and I’m too anxious to run Spires of Ascension to kill Devos for the Kyrian questline. What if I do something wrong? /facepalm
People may mock us, but anxiety and overthinking is real. I can’t turn it off. It’s just how my brain is. I usually eventually do things … with my heart pounding. It sucks. Hugs to you.
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I’ve seen stuffs like this in RP a lots, where folks are really afraid to walk ups or interact with folks because they’re worried they’ll be judged or just has extreme social anxieties.
Honestly, the only things I can recommend for this is considerin’ therapy for this sorta anxiety. It’s easy to just says ‘just stop carin’ lol’ but I knows it ain’t that easy for folks.
As a chronic overthinker myself, i’ve found the best way to stop overthinking things is to just do them and if you mess up, well figure out what you did wrong and try again later. You’ll never grill the greatest swiss cheese if you never grill a cheese!
I don’t overthink WoW because it is just a game for me, and if I mess up, I can always just /ignore everyone in the party, cackle, and find new people to play with.
I’m here to squeeze the cute and see the loot.
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Some over-thinkers are philosophers and think deep thoughts about how the universe works. And some over-thinkers are full of anxiety and go over the same thing over and over; like me, I’ll rehearse a phone call in my head and practice what I’ll say before calling. Real life forces you to do things and you mature and realize that all of that anxiety was unfounded, you emerge unscathed.
It is like embarrassment, one of our greatest fears. I’ll wake up at night reliving some event where I was mortified. But, no one else in the room even remembers it. That amplification is very human, I think.
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Distraction and redirection.
I use music, audiobooks, radio, podcast or have a movie on in the background to distract/redirect that nagging part of my mind, keeping it busy with fun stuff instead of worry.
It can backfire and lead to overthinking about things like facing off against Darth Vader.
Works most but not all of the time. The backup is just writing everything down for a small reprieve.
definitely have this problem with videogames though it’s a lot less pronounced with online games/mmo’s form some strange reason. Like I’ll spend days/weeks figuring out what kind of character I’ll want to play in a game like Fallout 4 or Baldur’s Gate…but here or in Fallout 76 it’s not such a big deal.
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