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I like the phrase analysis paralysis.
I find I could spend the rest of my life analyzing what my friend meant by what he said or what a date meant when she said this or that. And I think of what I should have said. Or could have said. Which is totally negating whatever I did do.
I’ve been reading one of Thomas Brown’s books on ADHD and he talks about the fact that we can really get stuck on emotions, like worry or sadness or whatever, and not be able to move on. I don’t hear that much in other books about ADHD but it sure rang true with me.
Sometimes I just want to smack myself and go, ‘Get over it!’ Like I wasted a year of my life in ‘mourning’ after I broke up with my first girlfriend. I only went out with her for about 3 months, and then I spent the next 12 months fixated and obsessing on what happened. Four times longer! God help me if I get married and then divorced after 10 years. I’ll spend the next 40 analyzing what went wrong and what I should have said to ‘show her.’
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