Table of Contents
Front Matter
- Title Page — Book overview and disclaimer
- Table of Contents — You are here
Main Content
Chapter 1: The Overthinking Epidemic
Why your brain won't shut up, why it's getting worse, and what this book will help you do about it.
Chapter 2: How Your Brain Gets Stuck
The neuroscience of rumination, worry loops, and why willpower alone can't fix them.
Chapter 3: Identifying Your Overthinking Patterns
The five types of overthinking and how to recognize which ones own you.
Chapter 4: Cognitive Defusion — Unhooking from Your Thoughts
How to stop treating every thought as truth and create distance between you and your mental noise.
Chapter 5: Breaking the Worry Loop
Practical techniques for interrupting anxious spirals before they take over your evening, your weekend, or your life.
Chapter 6: Decision Paralysis — How to Choose and Move On
Why more options make you miserable, how perfectionism keeps you stuck, and frameworks for deciding faster.
Chapter 7: Rumination — Letting Go of the Past
How to stop replaying conversations, mistakes, and what-ifs that you can't change.
Chapter 8: Social Overthinking — What They Think of You
Why you obsess over how others perceive you, and how to care less without becoming careless.
Chapter 9: Overthinking at Night — When Your Brain Won't Sleep
The specific problem of bedtime spirals and how to shut them down.
Chapter 10: Building an Anti-Overthinking Life
Long-term habits, routines, and mindset shifts that make overthinking less likely in the first place.
Back Matter
- AI Prompts for Overthinkers — Ready-to-use prompts for every type of mental spiral
- Glossary — Key terms and definitions
- Resources & Links — Apps, books, and further support
- About FreeLibrary.ai — Our mission and the Cynked ecosystem