Its all in your Head (Overthinking)

It's all in your Head

I think it's safe to say that everyone overthinks. Sometimes people go overboard while overthinking. We all know how it feels... One thought leads to another and you don't like this new thought. I have personally over-thought a lot in the past few months.

It all started when our school timetable for 9th grade came. The timings were from 7 a.m  onwards. Although I have adapted to these timings now, I was not when it started. You see, my sleep timings were not that great during summer vacation. I used to sleep at 2 AM and wake up at 12 PM. Then the drastic change came in my sleep cycle.

The night before the first day of school I went to bed at around 12 in order to complete my sleep before school started. But as I usually slept at 2, I wasn't feeling sleepy. So began the overthinking. I started thinking about how many hours of sleep I would get. As the hours passed by the sleep hours were lessening. I started getting nervous. I was worried because by the time i actually slept it was 2 or 3 o’clock. That means I would only get 3-4 hours of sleep. My overthinking led to me thinking if I overslept I would miss school and i didnt want that.

So I started getting more nervous and it made me sad.

I then went to my mother and told her about this. She told me that there was no reason to worry and she sat with me till I fell asleep. I woke up on time the next morning. All that overthinking for nothing. THis repeated almost every night for the next month.

I got so in my head over this one month, I didn't want to sleep; even though I love it. I used to get this scared feeling all which i didn't want. I always felt negative, like it was always in the back of my head that I won't sleep properly tonight. Now that I write about this, I realise I should have been more positive and not always be so scared. 

It was a matter of time before I started to realise that all of this is in my head and only in my head. It would have been better for me if I had just cleared my thoughts and calmed myself.

During the Summer vacation of May, my sleep cycle declined again. The transition of the sleep cycle from May to June was quite easy as I knew how to calm myself down. Thankfully I am now fully adapted to the timings. 

Something that helped me sleep was exercise. If I do exercise and get tired I would sleep better. Even reading a light hearted book before sleeping will help clear your thoughts and sleep better

What I want to convey is that even though my parents were ok with me sleeping a little late and taking a nap after school, I somehow convinced myself into thinking that my parents didn't like me sleeping late. But It was all in my head. 

I am sharing my personal experience because I know that this experience was wholly and solely caused by overthinking. I want everyone reading this to know that everyone overthinks, it's completely normal. The one thing to keep in mind whenever miscellaneously thinking is that don't let yourself think about the worst case scenarios

 And you should always remember that it's all in you head and everything is completely fine

Sometimes our brain thinks only of the worst case scenarios. We have to condition our own brain into thinking that everything is fine and stop it from thinking about the worst and rather focus on the best. 

However if your overthinking escalates, please reach out to professionals and don't overthink about that decision :)