The Overthinking Oddity
Image: An excerpt from a conversation with a friend A cursory Google search will tell you that anxiety is your body’s response to stress and overthinking a mere side effect or symptom — a statement that may seem astute for your average reader but churlish for someone with the disorder. An entire disorder watered down more than a tall glass of squash for easy understanding or lack thereof. Of the many things that one has learned to normalize in our modern world, awareness about patient dealing with people with such mental health issues haven’t seem to have made the list yet and is still viewed with notoriety instead of reciprocating kindness. A generation of sufferers focusing too much on the optics of being imperfect social preachers but never owning up to their faults or working on their flaws. WE are a generation obsessed with the idea of positive change yet never having the will or courage to work out the kinks in ourselves and instead choose to live oblivious lives bla...