• destinydiva said on Mar 07, 2008....

  aaww fallyn, i have this exact dilema in my head right now about something... i dont know the answers but I know how you feel :-) xx

• wombat said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I overanalyze everything--you should hear some of the things I come up with in my own little head about what people are really thinking when they do or say something.
   
  How do I know when I am doing it?   When hubby gives me that look.
   
  How do I know how much I should?   I don't.
   
  How do I know when to stop?   When he he tells me, "There you go thinking things that aren't even so.  Don't even go there...
   
  (and his famous line----"You are talking through a paper touch hole.....")

• uniquely-ironic said on Mar 07, 2008....

  *raises hand* I do it.
   
  Hello, my name is unique and I'm an over analyzer..........
   
  I wish there was a 12 step program for obsessing over stupid things like they truely mattered.  It's different if it really DOES matter, but I tend to make every thing a big matter.
   
  Hell, it takes me 1/2 my lunch break to decide what to eat.  My children were nearly born nameless and I started considering names the minute I found out I was pregnant.  I finally dropped out of college because there were too many majors to pick from.
   
  Get the idea?

• Eilan said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I do it, too.  I've been a worrier/overanalyzer ever since I was a child, to the point where I will sometimes have trouble sleeping because I can't turn off my thoughts. 
  
  You know that saying, "Don't sweat the small stuff?"  Well, I sweat the small stuff.  The big stuff?  Not so much.  Weird.
  

• Fallyn said on Mar 07, 2008....

  womby, talking through a paper touch hole? what does that even mean? *laughing*
  i think i have someone in my life like that......i just hope he's not upset that i still do it....cause i think i stop when he says something.
  
  destiny.....it's frustrating isn't it?!
  
  UI....oh...totally. *grin*........maybe we should start an overanalyzers anonymous club.
  
  yeah, i don't generally sweat the big stuff either......
  but i'll overanalyze movies...or music...or poetry...or stuff like that...and i think that's okay......it's un...and it gives me a new perspective...and adds to my life.
  but when i over analyze something someone says to me......and put meaning into every inflection in their tone...etc. that's when it gets me into trouble.
  
  
  

• cntlvmenuf said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I'm in on the club....I beat the proverbial dead horse to a pulp! I think I catch myself sometimes when I start getting frustrated, annoyed, or restless. Sometimes I even give myself a headache.
  Thats where blogging comes in....putting everything in writing clears my mind and gives me a different perspective on the issue.

• GrapeKoolaid said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I don't like to make any decisions until I've exhausted all possibilities.  This is why it takes me hours to shop for groceries, let alone important decisions regarding life.  

• wombat said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Fallyn:  Just saw you had a question there....I brought this up once before and I am sorry to have done it again...ha....I think he means something about toilet paper....use your imagination.  And it must be a northern thing from him.  I'd never heard it before either until I met him--and it didn't take him long to say it to me for the first time.

• Fallyn said on Mar 07, 2008....

  cntlv....i wish it did for me...usually it just gives me more questions....or i think i've made up my mind on something...or feel a certain way...and then something else happens that i'm overanalyzing....and my mind or thoughts on the matter change.
  
  grape......see, shopping for groceries doesn't take me long....i don't analyze enough on that. *grin*
  
  womby, oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
  wow.
  um...yeah. *grin*
  *falling over laughing*  ....your guy sounds good for you ...ya know?
  

• wombat said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Fallyn:  Glad you got it, and a giggle out of it!  And yes, he's good for me. Long story but maybe the best one I know.

• Twylarants said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Uh..nope. I don't bother analyzing anything except health issues, then I over analyze. Otherwise, I see things like this: it is what it is.  Don't ask me what it means but it works for me.  

• Fallyn said on Mar 07, 2008....

  it's good when your long stories can be good ones.
  i don't have a good long story yet....but i have faith that i will eventually.
  
  twyla....i think it would work for most of us.....if we'd just calm down and stop looking at everything so deeply.
  

• lfbno7 said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I like to analyze people and judge them according to the different types of personality typing that I'm familiar with - the enneagram, Myers Briggs, astrology, Soul Signs.

• Fallyn said on Mar 07, 2008....

  iffy.....do you believe those to be infallible?

• lfbno7 said on Mar 07, 2008....

  They are just systems for understanding people. The more you learn about them, the more helpful they are. Astrology is hopelessly complicated though. My favorite systems are the enneagram and Soul Signs.

• Fallyn said on Mar 07, 2008....

  that's cool.
  i just did a test that said i'm sanguine......what do you think of those systems?
  

• Mr.Stupid said on Mar 08, 2008....

  I went to sea world when I was a little boy. I looked too deeply into a big pool of water, and a great big killer whale came straight up out of the water and scared me half to death. I could scream like a little girl back then, and I am sure I did.
  Sometimes mysteries are better left alone.
  

• insanityinme said on Mar 08, 2008....

  *raises hand* i am guilty of that too. its often leads to fights.haha

• silverwhisper said on Mar 08, 2008....

  i think everyone overanalyzes things from time to time, fallyn--and i think that's normal. :>
  
  having said that: the trick is in listening to the voice in the back of your head that says "say fallyn, ya think that maybe you're reading too much into this?"
  
  of course, if that voice doesn't speak up often, i guess that isn't a very good gauge, huh?
  
  in relationships: you know, i'm a fan of whatever it is you're thinking or suspecting about someone but haven't heard directly from that person, asking him or her directly--assuming you can trust him or her to tell the truth. yes, that can lead to awkward conversations, but hell, would you rather have an awkward conversation, or proceed down a completely incorrect path?
  
  i think there's honestly something masturbatory about overanalyzing things w/out stepping back from the process after a while and trying to ascertain the truth.
  
  ed

• wantingmore said on Mar 09, 2008....

  Hi Fallyn...I overanalyze A LOT! I have the same questions as you. Some people have told me it's endearing how I delve down deep and analyze things, others have told me I analyze way too much. So I never seem to know when it's appropriate or not. I guess I'm in the same boat. Hope you're doing well!

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