"cognitive overload disguised as self-awareness"

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The research on overthinking reveals the mechanism: when you become hyper-aware of your mental processes, you activate your prefrontal cortex (analytical thinking) while trying to engage pattern recognition systems.

These neural networks compete for resources. Your brain literally can't do both simultaneously.

Result? You freeze. You hesitate.

This has a lot of intuitive resonance to it just speaking from experience