Do you think too much?

"Even the most mellow people worry now and then. But women are especially prone to overthinking, or constantly rehashing events for no real gain. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, offers some help in her new book Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life. "When you overthink, you ruminate over what went wrong in the past and obsess over current concerns," she says. "You think all this analysis will lead to tremendous insight, but the quality of your solutions actually becomes worse." It's no wonder, then, that such behavior..."

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