Why Overthinking Is Destroying Us

Baker, Maher Asaad

tredition GmbH（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 236 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783384778352

Description

Why Overthinking Is Destroying Us invites readers into the hidden architecture of the mind. In this place, thoughts meant to guide us instead trap us, looping endlessly between past regrets and imagined futures. With striking clarity and psychological depth, this book exposes the silent mechanisms that turn the modern mind against itself: rumination that rewrites the past, worry that distorts the future, and a relentless search for certainty in a world that offers none.Blending scientific insight with profound introspection, it reveals how overthinking quietly reshapes identity, erodes emotional balance, and reshapes the body itself through chronic stress, tension, and exhaustion. It shows why sensitive, intelligent, and conscientious people are often the ones most vulnerable to this internal storm, and why the brain's ancient survival systems are mismatched to the complexities of contemporary life.But this book is not only a diagnosis; it is a reclamation. It offers a path back to presence, clarity, and emotional freedom, away from the labyrinth of imagined scenarios and back toward the grounding reality of the moment. With compassionate reasoning and powerful metaphors, it guides readers in recognizing the difference between helpful reflection and destructive mental spirals, and in learning the rare courage required to let life unfold without rehearsing every possibility.For anyone who feels trapped in their own mind, Why Overthinking Is Destroying Us is both a mirror and a lifeline, a reminder that peace is not found in thinking more, but in thinking differently. Maher Asaad Baker (In Arabic: ) is a Syrian Author, Journalist, and Musician. He was born in Damascus in 1977. Since his teens, he has been building up his career, starting by developing applications and websites while exploring various types of media-creating paths.He started his career in 1997 with a dream of being one of the most well-known artists in the world.Reading was always a part of his life as his father's books always surrounded him, but his writing ability didn't develop until a later age as his most time was occupied with other things such as developing, writing songs and music, or in media projects production, he is most known for his book "How I wrote a million Wikipedia articles" and a novel entitled "Becoming the man".