Overthinkers United Pillows

'I feel like everyone's out to get me.'

"Bark or stare? Always a tough decision. Bark? Maybe stare? Whimper? Maybe? Meanwhile, stare."

They hated me.

"It's days like this that make me long for days like this."

"Try thinking about something else."

Four Types of Test-Takers...

"The overthinker"

"Ideas that jump from noggin when head not yet screwed on."

That party went well.

"Is all this confusion and complexity necessary?"

"Isn't it an amazing co-incidence that this is an orange, and it IS ORANGE?"

No Immediate Danger

A Hypochondriac's Worst Nightmare

"It's going to be huge! Cheese-flavored vodka!"

'Your parents are way too overprotective.'

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

Thinking and thinking backwards.

"I think he said he wants to buy 'just the one'. You'd better fetch the manager"

"I made a list of all my symptoms. Lost the list. Can't remember any of my symptoms now."

You have reached the end of your brain...

"Every once in a while he gets nostalgic for Woodstock."

"If I go to the party alone, will I be able to leave when I want? But then, there's always the possibility that I will get stuck talking to someone. I can't shake the problem is me. What if no one else likes me? I'm the only one being critical... The issue is I'm not enough and it's really so huge." "The over thinker"

'You look like you have a lot on your mind, Jim!'

'It's my own fault, I encouraged him to give up cigarettes in favour of a pipe. It was while we were on holiday in the Swiss Alps!'

Concern Chart

"You're overthinking this."

'I'm worried about not being worried...'

The Thinker and The Reactor.

Too Weird to Have a Husband

"My problem is I obsess over whether I worry enough."

'Let's hold off making a decision until we have even more information we don't really need.'

Flowchart of an idea.

Sometimes a Good Excuse to Get off the Telephone is Hard to Find

Interview anxiety

"The Talmudic umpire It may have been a strike, since it cut the corner of the plate, and yet it was a trifle high, but not really that high, and yet it seemed to curve over the plate..."