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Overthinking again
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this probs sounds silly actually but my brain wants me to overthink it all again. like it reminded me of the time when i was in art class eventhough that was years ago and we had to draw from our imagination and i was given the name of a place to draw. However i didnt know how to draw it from my imgaination so i googled it eventhough i shouldent have. I should have said to my tutor but I didn't. I did the art class back in 2020/2021 so it is in the past. but I keep feeling this dread inside for some reason. I just needed somewhere to vent on here. That was in the past and I have done a different course in film now which I completed. Why do I worry so much. I find that I overthink and I have keep telling myself to be in the present.
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In this case, it sounds like it was over something that you don't feel you should have done. There's a balance - it's okay to reflect on past events to learn how to move forwards, but it's also important to place things in perspective. It's probably unlikely that that event is enough to worry about now, so it's okay to accept the mistake (we're human after all!) and let yourself move on
It sounds like you have the right approach - overthinking can often stray into dwelling on past actions or future possibilities, and bringing ourselves back to the present is a useful exercise to doing that. If you catching yourself drifting into overthinking territory, it's helpful to practice some mindfulness to bring yourself back to the present.
Regardless, it sounds very draining for you, I do hope you feel a little better after the responses from others! Huge hugs xxx
For example, in your situation, I understand that it can be difficult to draw something if you struggle to imagine it (I have a similar issue myself). So you googled rather than telling the teacher. Now, a few years later, this memory comes back to you and you feel anxious and overwhelmed. You can't change the past but what can you learn from this situation? Perhaps it might help you to learn to ask for help or voice your concerns in the future? For example, if you had said you couldn't imagine the place, maybe (hopefully) the teacher would've allowed you to look it up or provided you with a picture just for reference, so you wouldn't have had to secretly google and later feel anxious. Either way, you didn't do anything wrong- not being able to imagine/visualise things is a difficulty for some but that doesn't mean that it can't be accommodated for.
It's also worth thinking about what brought this memory up for you. Sometimes it just happens to pop into your head, but other times it may be that you came across something which triggered the memory to come back. If that's the case, it might help to either avoid the trigger, or just remind yourself that what happened was in the past and you can learn from it and move on. Then try to take your mind off it