The Book of Overthinking Quotes

“I hate to tell you this but worry is exactly the same, it is a superstitious behaviour that then becomes a habit.”
― Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry

“Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking: 'I must go and spend a shit-load of money on a psychologist to check whether or not my thinking is factual and evident based.”
― Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry

“I observe this in my clinic when I ask a client:
- So, how's it all going? Do you feel as though you overcome your worrisome over-thinking?
They reply:
- Yep! I only worry about important things these days!
- Oh dear...”
― Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry

“Worrisome overthinking slips and slides through logic and rationality, determined to exist—and making it often very resistant to treatment.”
― Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry

“Connections from the emotional systems to the cognitive systems are stronger than connections from the cognitive systems to the emotional systems.”
― Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry

“this: if endorphins are like having a single vodka and cranberry juice, serotonin is a double vodka and Red Bull, and dopamine, the gruntiest of them all, is like a dry martini, stirred, not shaken, no ice, no olives, drunk while listening to crooner Dean Martin.”
― Gwendoline Smith, The Book of Overthinking: How to Stop the Cycle of Worry