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Overthinking is a shape-shifter because it can appear as anxiety, depression, or as being stuck.

Overthinking starts out feeling like a solution but it becomes a trap that sucks you in deeper and deeper.

The fix is the same for all three. Change your relationship with your thoughts not the thoughts themselves.

One psychological process is running the show in people's lives more than most therapists realize. After decades of working with children, teens, and adults, I have come to believe that overthinking is one of the most underestimated forces of human suffering. Not because it is common, but because it is transdiagnostic. That is psychologist-speak for a mental habit that cuts across several psychological disorders rather than belonging to just one.

If you have ever wondered why therapy often helps with one issue only to have another one surface, this may be why. What I am saying is that overthinking is a shape-shifter. It doesn't always look like overthinking—it looks like your problem.

Let's now take a look at the three darkest disguises of overthinking.

Anxiety says things........

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