I’ve been struggling with overthinking for a while

Hi Aya,

Over thinking is a human instinct that our defence mechanisms create for a safe outcome. Thinking about your past can bring back those emotions and feelings that could be from learned behaviours, what you learned off your parents or trauma which can still effect our behaviours, We can change these thoughts and feelings in to a more manageable effect and learn to accept what they are and how we can cope with them - without talking it through, people stay on a kind of wheel and go around and around and can't push forward with their lives.

Getting therapy with this has already started with your acceptance of the past holding you back, so well done, taking little steps instead of leaps will make your therapy more achievable and won't put you under to much stress, taking little steps and building up your confidence will put you on your journey and you need to take time out to work on yourself.

Only you have the answers - therapy is just to guide you and challenge you in your thoughts. Working with your therapist, you should come up with a plan to achieve this, once you gain more confidence with your emotions and feelings the easier it will become to accept what has happened and how they affected you .

If you think these issues are affecting or impacting your life then seek help - what have you got to lose, you can only gain understanding and skills to improve your life. The therapist will give you a non judgmental space where you can talk to a person who would be solely there for your thoughts and feelings, which would be in total confidential settings.

There is light at the end of the tunnel and you are already walking toward it. The therapist would just be by your side helping you to walk towards your goals and dreams. There may be little bumps along the way, but you won't get judged on those because that may be part of your learning curve, so after getting over those bumps we carry on helping you.

Thanks, Saul