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Overthinking exists because your brain thinks worrying is the same as planning. Cute, but incorrect.

✗ FAKE
Overthinking, or rumination, is repetitive thinking about problems or worries. It is linked to anxiety and depression, and it is a pattern many people have, but psychologists do not describe it as the brain confusing worry with planning.

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