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Overthinking is when your brain just won’t switch off. It feels like it’s stuck going around and around on the same loop as a hamster stuck on a wheel. But while the hamster is having fun and getting fit, you’re feeling lower and lower and burning out.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is a drug-free treatment that allows you to rewire your mind to identify and positively redirect destructive or disturbing thought patterns - paving the way to a better, healthier, and happier you. The author walks you through his personal experiences of denial and hopelessness and how proven CBT methods worked in mitigating the intrusive thoughts that fueled his anxiety and depression.

To ensure we’re the ones controlling our minds, we must curate our thought content like a quality control expert on a vital production line. We need to know when our thoughts are helpful or harmful.

According to one research program, anxiety-related issues are the number one mental health problem among women and are second only to alcohol and drug abuse among men. Stress-related ailments cost the nation $300 billion every year in medical bills and lost productivity. And use of sedative drugs like Xanax and Valium have skyrocketed in the last 15 years. Even students are feeling it. One psychologist reports that the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s.