From: The Washington Post
Can’t Stop Overthinking?
March 4, 2026
Overthinking might not strike you as a strenuous activity. You don’t have to move a muscle to spend hours imagining worst-case scenarios, debating choices or playing the day’s headlines on a loop. And yet, running mental laps can feel almost as exhausting as real ones.
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Thinking itself isn’t the problem. Ethan Kross, psychologist, researcher and author of “Chatter,” said that our inner voice can be a really valuable tool. It allows us to reflect, plan, rehearse important conversations, motivate ourselves toward goals and make sense of what happens to us, among other things.
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