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Case Study Overthinking Intro and Limitation

This document discusses how a person's thought processes can impact their mental health. It explains that internal and external factors can influence mental health in both positive and negative ways. A person's outlook also shapes how they interpret life's experiences, and negative thinking may lead to overthinking that increases vulnerability to anxiety and other mental conditions if not addressed. While overthinking is not itself a recognized disorder, it can be linked to anxiety and exacerbate other issues like depression through a bidirectional relationship where each influences the other. The document also notes that anxiety is a normal feeling but can become a disorder through excessive daily fear and overthinking that triggers other symptoms. It limits the scope of the discussion to frequent overthinkers and emphasizes the importance of participants

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Case Study Overthinking Intro and Limitation

This document discusses how a person's thought processes can impact their mental health. It explains that internal and external factors can influence mental health in both positive and negative ways. A person's outlook also shapes how they interpret life's experiences, and negative thinking may lead to overthinking that increases vulnerability to anxiety and other mental conditions if not addressed. While overthinking is not itself a recognized disorder, it can be linked to anxiety and exacerbate other issues like depression through a bidirectional relationship where each influences the other. The document also notes that anxiety is a normal feeling but can become a disorder through excessive daily fear and overthinking that triggers other symptoms. It limits the scope of the discussion to frequent overthinkers and emphasizes the importance of participants

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Introduction

The way that someone thinks has a major impact on their mental health. A person's

mental health can be directly affected by both internal and external factors. These influences

can have either positive or negative consequences on the person's psychological well-being.

These experiences influence how people respond to and interpret these things, as well as how

they behave in response to various circumstances, difficulties, and events throughout life

(Rebecca Gibson, 2022). The way a person views these experiences in life is also influenced by

their mentality; for example, a person with a negative outlook may overthink the situations in

question negatively. Overthinking in turn often leads a person vulnerable to experiencing

mental conditions such as anxiety if not dealt with properly.

In the words of Sarah Sperber (2022), "A person's capacity for thought is simply one of

the greatest strengths as a human being," since it aids in interpreting and analyzing

information, problem-solving, and historical learning. When a person overthinks, they play a

notion through in their thoughts repeatedly that doesn't seem to have an answer, it is also

referred to as rumination. A person's mental health may even decline if they continually

overthink or examine events in their lives, such as the past, present, or future.
Although it can be linked to other mental health issues like anxiety and a number of

others, overthinking is not an acknowledged mental disorder on its own. According to a study

by Mclaughlin et al. (2013), there is a seemingly bidirectional association between overthinking

and other mental health problems, whereby an individual's overthinking is exacerbated by high

levels of stress, anxiety, and depression and vice versa (Stephanie Anderson Whitmer, 2021).

Both are necessary for the other to exist. When someone overthinks to the extent that it is

seriously detrimental to their mental health, crippling anxiety can be the result.

On the other hand, anxiety is a feeling that everyone has on a regular basis for a variety

of reasons. It serves as a protective mechanism against stress and potential threats. Even while

a little bit of anxiety now and then is normal, anxiety disorders are not. These are mental

illnesses that cause a person to experience excessive fear and anxiety daily. Overthinking is one

of the many things that might trigger this to happen along with other symptoms.

Limitation
The major goal of this study is to identify the psychoanalysis between anxiety as a

mental condition and overthinking as a mental disorder. This study is only limited to people

who frequently overthink on a regular basis. This also emphasizes the importance of the mental

health of the volunteers who provided the data.

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