While it’s common to overthink about the future and what might happen, people can also overthink things that have already taken place in the past.

“Rumination about the past [is] to constantly repeat the memory of an event in the past that was upsetting, hurtful [or] embarrassing,” says Mustafa.

This can be through shaming and criticising yourself for a mistake you made by replaying the scenario in your mind over and over.

Other types of overthinking highlighted in the post included using ‘should’ statements, when we focus on how things should be based on the unrealistic expectations we have for others or ourselves; overgeneralising and drawing a faulty conclusion about something based on one experience and giving yourself a label because of a negative experience you had and getting stuck in a negative thought loop.

“This usually leads to low self-worth,” she warns.

Hopelessness is also noted as a sign of overthinking, as you fixate “on a thought based on a circumstance to the point that you may start to truly believe it,” along with having an “all-or-nothing” way of thinking, where you only evaluate yourself or others in extreme, black-or-white categories.

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