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Overthinking and MD?

Hi to everyone, hope you're all doing great! Anyways, I found that although I dont daydream as fantastically as I used to, I definitely do a lot of overthinking. It's like my brain never shuts off, and I start thinking of the past and people around me and all this weird stuff. Could there be a correlation between MD and these annoying, racing thoughts?

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Comment by Fallen Messenger on January 24, 2016 at 8:37am: Well I know that half of a MDer's thoughts are of Daydreams, which amounts to about 2,000 segments a day. MDD is a completely mental activity that is made by thoughts, so I think they are related hand in hand.

Comment by Blanca Luna on January 15, 2016 at 9:29am: Thanks peeps that was really helpful

Comment by Source on January 13, 2016 at 4:07am: Probably, in my experience MD is caused by that kind of thoughts. I think it's sort of natural: something happened in the past, it wasn't supposed to happen but you can't change the past, so you create another world where things went the right way. No one likes it when things go wrong.

Comment by Pathfinder on January 12, 2016 at 4:09pm: There might be. My experience is a lot of MDs have anxiety. Overthinking is a classic symptom of anxiety. Also, thinking a lot about the past is called ruminating - going over and over on past events, or recent, or even future. It is also a symptom.