Less than 10% of dreaded outcomes ever tend to occur. Here, four doctors of psychiatry and psychology offer strategies to ...

What do Oprah Winfrey and Mark Cuban have in common? Aside from being hugely successful media moguls (not to mention, billionaires), they didn’t let early-career setbacks block their roads to success.

Rumination means being trapped, overthinking about negative feelings or circumstances. Source: Patrick Hoesly/Flickr Rumination, also called repetitive negative thinking, is a thought pattern that ...

The cost of overthinking is even higher than you imagine. It causes you to spend too much time deliberating that you could otherwise have devoted to taking action. It turns helpful reflection into ...

Trapped in a loop of intrusive thoughts? Discover why we overthink and learn 7 clinical strategies from psychologist Júlia ...

In a recent post about learning to be more spontaneous, I suggested that you not overthink a decision. All well and good, one reader commented, with a plaintive note detectable in his typing—but how?

Thinking too much without pause drains your mind. Psychology calls this mental fatigue, driven by rumination. Your brain was ...

The mind’s remarkable ability to analyze and process information serves as both a gift and a potential source of distress. Mental health professionals increasingly recognize how overthinking, ...

That mental merry-go-round of “what ifs” and “should haves” isn’t just annoying. It’s actually rewiring your brain as you read this sentence. Overthinking – that relentless mental chewing on problems ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Overthinking is the habit of excessively analyzing, dwelling on ...

Past studies have identified a loneliness-rumination-depression nexus. Rumination is defined as repetitive and intrusive negative thoughts and feelings, and loneliness as a gap between desired and ...