Thank you for sharing that! What a perfect way to describe what alcohol does to you.

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Misinformed action is the biggest waste of human time. Gather unbiased data, then make a decision, and gain meaningful experience. There is no such thing as perfect. You cannot act with no information without compensating for misinformed action later. Just take a moment and think before you act.

-C mctaint

Dunno about you guys, but I’d trust the thing protecting mcnutt from mcasshole

The man himself

Squirt McNutt

Yeah, you'll never know if you made the best decision, you make a decision and make the best out of whatever the situation.

Day 62 of sobriety

This is only valid advice for those that overthink, for the rest of the population it is: “please think before you do something “

I’m on day 5, finally feel like I can do this

I’m 10 and a half years sober and the best advice I can give is take everyday one day at a time. Hell, sometimes it’s taking the day one minute at a time. You’ve got this, keep being honest with yourself, and find a good support group. This stranger is proud of you! The first step is the hardest.

Same Honey, it's taken years of therapy and medication to get where I am and I still struggle. My brain is literally wired different than our US society is built to accommodate.

Honey, me either. I'm just over here chasing the dopamine.

I can't decide on a good career 😪

3 decades sober. Get to a meeting and say what you said online. That's where the experts are who can help. I'm old school (and old) but would suggest finding a sponsor to work with. Beware of social media. It's not always positive anonymity.

You’ve taken the biggest steps so far … the decision to stop and to ask for help. You’re doing amazing.

Oh wow. I can’t believe it was so simple. All I have to do is stop! Wow! Such insight! Such wisdom!

This is fucking stupid.

Yes!!!

I read these and chuckle to myself. If it were this easy I'd have a stable life years ago.

laughs in executive dysfunction Yes, the analysis paralysis is real. Most of these are for people without unresolved emotional trauma and/or neurotypicals.

Literally my current situation. 32 years old and just now starting to break apart the chains of lifelong trauma. I just want it to be over. And I'm starting not to care how. :/

Overthinking is also a response to being stuck in fight or flight. To be ruled by emotions and get stuck in a whirlwind of thoughts. Especially an effect from a traumatic upbringing or horrible relationship.

A smart person or “dumb”person can both overthink. If you are aware and learn that thoughts are just thoughts, and you know to quite your mind… overthinking is done.

Overthinking stems from negative emotional states of an outcome that has or hasn’t happened.

We are not victims. IQ level doesn’t necessarily dictate stress levels/overthinking.you can be dumb and overthink a test too.

Great job!

You made the right choice!

Good luck! You can do it.

The road is tough at first but it gets WAY easier!

In a job situation.. would you chose to leave the job you like and already have, for a better payed in which you will be making almost the same thing with more pressure of time and impacting the quality of your portfolio and maybe health? The offer is almost 4 times bigger that the current payment. As an artist, portfolio is important. The current job is about participating in a feature film from a worldly renowed superhero franchise. Would you sacrifice quality for money? One is working on a Superhero feature film, the other is just making animated explainer videos, but somehow the payment is almost 4 times the other. I'm in a tempting situation where I really have to think it well. And McNutt doesn't convince me...

man i wish someone told me this before i started an unhealthy weight lifting regime and eating so much protein powder that i got piles