Dr. Cherag Shah argues that what doctors call anxiety is actually a powerful mind bored and understimulated. Instead of medication or meditation, he says to channel that racing-thought energy into meaningful work that challenges you.
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Your overthinking isn't anxiety, it's a genius trapped within. You call it anxiety, your therapist calls it racing thought. Society wants to medicate it away. I am calling it what it actually is. Unexpected intelligence desperately searching for a mission. Your mind isn't broken, it's bored. It's capable of processing massive amount of information, solving complex problem seeing pattern invisible to everyone else. But you are not using it, you are suppressing it with Netflix or endless scrolling so it turns onto itself. Overthinking is what happens when powerful intelligence has no outlet, no mission worth pursuing, no purpose that lights you up. You don't need to calm your mind down, you need to challenge it up. Give it a problem worth solving, project worth building, ideas worth executing that it actually matters to you. Your overthinking is a superpower desperately searching for its mission. So stop trying to silence it. Start directing it towards something worthy for your own genius. Save this reel if your mind won't shut up, it's trying to tell you give me something important.