Obsessive Worrying

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I know I've always been a highly anxious person, but my therapist recently brought up something new: apparently I have obsessive thought patterns about things that are long passed. I'll worry about something that's happened years ago and will deplete my energy from thinking about it so much, wondering why it happened, and why I fell victim to such an event?

It kind of sucks... I don't want to weaken myself by being so anxious all the time. For those of you who experience something similar, what have you done to cope, and what success have you experienced with said techniques?

I am that way; I overanalyze things, or so I'm told....Sometimes there is no easy answer, and you just have to let it go.... accept yourself, and your past and try to learn from it, i.e., do things differently the next time. What is it, specifically, that you are worried about?

Last edited by FaithHopeCheese on 24 Oct 2009, 7:48 am, edited 1 time in total.

Yeah i worry about stuff that happened years ago all the time. All you gotta do is tell yourself that no one else can remember it and if they do they don't care, and therefore if you stop caring then it means no one in the world cares, so it's pointless worrying about. Works for me most of the time

Another thing i do if that doesn't work is talk to someone else about it, and they usually tell me how stupid it was, how long ago it was, and how stupid i am for worrying! I usually can't stop worrying full stop, but it stops the even from being blown out of proportion in my mind lol.

I worry about things that happened a long time ago a lot.
I basically do what Cad suggested.