Does excessive introspection necessitate eventual anxiety?

[Reforged]

Introspection is good in moderation but if you're not careful you'll use it to make sense of your actions even if your actions don't make sense.
Action is more important, you are your actions. Actions are the person people see and given time the person you will become.
If a dog bites a child but later feels really bad about it noone gives a shit. Its getting put down.

[bennyboy]

I think the OP's wording pretty much answers itself. If the introspection is EXCESSIVE, then that means, by definition, that some unwanted result has occurred. It may not necessarily be anxiety, but what other negative result would a purely mental process have?

[GrandizerII]

I think the OP's wording pretty much answers itself.  If the introspection is EXCESSIVE, then that means, by definition, that some unwanted result has occurred.  It may not necessarily be anxiety, but what other negative result would a purely mental process have?

Depression?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Live inside the moment.

[Edwardo Piet]

In my experience overthinking leads to anxiety and depression comes about when you despair so much at your thinking and anxiety - or other things - that you give up and your thinking actually slows down, it's pure despair and exhaustion.

Thinking too much too repetitively and too fast tends to be anxiety.

Giving up and having your thoughts slow down to a crawl tends to be depression.

The "giving up" isn't a conscious decision it's more like a burnout when you just can't cope anymore.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...ple-happy/ rapid thinking makes people happy according to this article, I haven't read it in a while but either in this article or another similar one it is also made clear that fast repetitive thinking creates more anxiety than happiness... and slow repetitive thinking tends to be more depressive than anxious.

So it's as much about repetitiveness as it is about speed. Very hyper fast thinking that isn't remotely repetitive can be more akin to mania, fast repetitive thinking to anxiety, slow repetitive thinking depression and slow thinking with variety is more a chilled out kind of happiness, supposedly.

The article could be complete bullshit of course I have no idea how reliable it is.

[Edwardo Piet]

I keep misreading my own thread as "excessive masturbation" instead of "excessive introspection": just goes to show what kind of mind I have

[Longhorn]

Don't introspect too much on it

[Edwardo Piet]

Can't anyway, too busy wanking.

[bennyboy]

I keep misreading my own thread as "excessive masturbation" instead of "excessive introspection": just goes to show what kind of mind I have

Pictures, or introspection never happened.

[Edwardo Piet]

Um... not here and not now