Overthinking and Social Anxiety | Martyna Kulikowska | TEDxBIS Istanbul Youth

Do you overthink? Think about it, but not too hard, she doesn't want you to start overthinking. Let's hear what Martyna has to say about a topic that will really get us - you guessed it - thinking... Martyna is a 12 year old girl with a keen mind, who often finds herself lost in the labyrinth of her own thoughts. Overthinking became her constant companion, leaving patterns of worry and doubt in her mind. She has observed that most people have the same issue, and would like to help them overcome their worries. Despite her young age, Martyna has a deep understanding of mental health, and likes to spread awareness of them, as she understands that it’s a very serious problem. She also noticed that some mental health conditions come from a small problem most of us miss, overthinking. So in this talk, Martyna will be explaining to us that even though overthinking itself isn’t an issue, it can lead to a very big one. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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Overthinking is not always bad - it helps us find solutions. Plus - we will be paid to over think at our jobs - without this ability we will get fired.
Parents must over think about their baby - without this ability - they will end up in jail when their baby dies of neglect and not being supervised.
Overthinking is 0,5% of social anxiety. You are totally unaware of 99,5% of other traits and issues of social anxiety.
So - any solution you find for overthinking will be like pebble in the comparison of all the sand on a beach. It will do nothing.
We do not overthink just because. We do not overthink out of nothing. We do not choose to overthink because we are bored.
Overthinking is first red flag of exposure to toxic people and abuse. In childhood emotional abuse is called ACE and ACoA - and this is where socially anxious are conditioned to overthink. This is called Complex Trauma. This is not phobia as CBT and DSM mislabel social anxiety.
Even CBT and DSM define social anxiety as fear of criticism and scrutiny. It is not fear of embarrassment as you say at 4:01.
When we label social anxiety as fear of interaction with people - we will end up with self fulfilling prophecy where now psychiatry will make more damage with wrong explanations which we blindly adopt and believe in.
Social anxiety is fear of punishment. Punishment part of operant conditioning.
Over active amygdala - would mean that we do not only have social anxiety but also we would feel anxiety in other settings too.
But it is called social+anxiety. It is not called amygdala anxiety.
Unfortunately wrong definitions are misleading and cause more damage than help.