My tendency to over analyze everything

Bob

For example, this morning I was talking to my friend and she blurted out "fuck my life" and started talking about her problems. Like an idiot, I was too busy thinking "how would one have sex with someone else's life, anyway?" instead of listening to her, and later when I took my shower, I ended up just standing there vacuously while thinking of the question. There was another example, but I forgot it, and now I'm going to spend all week thinking about what it may have been, then when I remember it, I'll spend a few hours wondering if I should edit this post to include it, weighing out the pros and cons and wondering if anyone will even read it and if so, what benefit they could possibly gain from seeing another example of how weird and ditzy I am at times. I don't even think that last part is an example of over analyzing something, and I'll probably spend the next three hours debating about whether it is or isn't in my head.

Stupid, non-functioning brain.

(And yes, I know "non-functioning" isn't accurate as if my brain wasn't functioning, I would be dead or in a vegetative state or something like that, but I couldn't think of anything better to say and goddammit I'm doing it again)

EDIT: I don't know if it should be "over analyze", "over think" or something different entirely. If anyone knows what word / phrase would fit best, please help.

vacasama

Do you daydream?  That what sounds like you're doing.

Vorpy

I tend to under analyze at times when spending too much time over-analyzing. Sometimes I think of every situation but the ones that are actually GOING to happen.

Water is spilled on the ground.

What if it's connected to an electric current soon?
What if I get blamed for causing it?
What if it's gas or something else?
I should get out of it now!

-slip and fall into the puddle-

Bob

^^At times. I wouldn't call it daydreaming, just getting lost in thought. Then again, they're fundamentally the same thing, only I tend to think of daydreaming as having some sort of image whereas getting lost in thought would be... not that. Just, words swirling around in your head with no image to attach them to, only your voice or whatever voice you hear them in. Plus, when I daydream, it tends to be so much more peaceful, like my regular dreams, only, well, not chaotic and weird. But, when it comes down to it, I suppose you could say it's like daydreaming.

ninjaclown

It happens. Don't really know why.

Bob

That's just the thing, though. It happens every day, several times a day over the most menial things. I often wonder if it's not that big a deal and I'm just being neurotic, as my friends often have the same problem but no where near as frequently.

Then I start to wonder just how many of my problems are completely normal and have just been blown out of proportion by me, and I start thinking what perhaps I don't have any notable problems except for being really paranoid and having a tendency to exaggerate, only it's not quite exaggeration but.... I don't really know the word for it. That thing where you make everything worse than it is.

Then I start thinking that that's stupid because everyone has problems and I'm no exception, except I start thinking that it was never a thing of being an exception as being so neurotic in the first place is a problem in of itself, but I think of my other problems and go back to thinking how many of them I'm just blowing out of proportion and I start wondering if I'm really that much of a drama queen, then I'll start thinking to be a drama queen one would have to broadcast their problems to everyone, but I am so I must be a drama queen, but at the same time my intent isn't to garner drama or attention, which just raises the question of what defines a drama queen and what one would be called if they would normally be a drama queen only without actively wanting to cause drama and if such a thing could even be possible.

Then I'll assume that I do want to cause drama and that I'm just lying to myself to keep myself from having an even less positive opinion of myself, which will lead me to think that I may or may not have histrionic disorder, but I'll think that I don't because, even if I am a drama queen, I'm not an attention whore, although I very well may be as I keep doing things that bring attention, and while I tell myself I don't like the attention it brings, obviously that's just me lying to myself some more, and I really need to stop because I'm rambling and I have no idea how long this post is going to be when I hit the "Post Comment" button but I don't even want to post it anymore but I still will, which will just make me think that something else is wrong with me and maybe I'm just batshit insane.