2024-12-03 15:51
I'm 67.
I spent 31 years of my adult life...
Berating myself as a professional, a partner, and a parent.
Trying to be perfect.
Doing what I thought I should do.
Rehashing and regretting mistakes.
Catastrophizing about the future.
Feeling like a victim of my own mind.
Seven things I wish I'd known decades earlier:
1. My mental distress was called overthinking.
2. Almost everyone overthinks. In the US, 75-99% of people do, depending...