How do I know if I'm overreacting?

Good question. How do you not know that you are overreacting? It is based on how you increase of your own awareness of your emotion and the feeling of your body. When something or a event happens, you might possibly trigger by that event, or a word, or a feeling, or a behavior by someone else. If it is a normal respond, people normally won’t get too upset, impulsive, nervous, outrageous, angry, or any intense emotional reaction. They will just listen, and state what happened, or maybe give personal advice or neutral judgment, or ignore sometimes, or just not take in personally. So next time, you might try to observe yourself from an observer direction, and observe your emotion and respond. It is good to stop first, observe, then respond.

What helps me most is looking at the issue and noticing if I'm acting from a place of fear, hurt or trauma – or if I'm acting out of love, peace, serenity or healing. If you go in with compassion and good intention, you're probably reacting in an acceptable way, as long as it feels good and natural for you! You're allowed to feel angry, anxious, distrustful, etc. but it's really important to remember that those are your feelings to handle – not anyone else's. Your feelings are absolutely valid, but you can't control other people. You can only control your own reactions. Much love, friend!

I would say that you know if you are overreacting if you come back to the situation after a suitable period of time, after you have taken the time to calm down emotionally and return to a baseline state. If you are still unsure then after taking some time to consider it, you can talk to a trusted friend or family member about it and ask their opinion on your actions for the situation. If doing this, it is important to try to express the situation objectively rather than subjectively so that they can best give you their honest opinion on whether you are overreacting or not.

Over reacting is simply a phrase placed on you due to others perspectives. Everyone has feelings. They way you feel can not be controlled but how you respond to those feelings can be. Try seeing it from others point of view. Of your feelings aren’t being explained and you are only feeling worse from talking with others maybe you are over reacting and need to take a step back. A deep breath as simple as is sounds can do wonders to help clear the mind. It’s important to acknowledge your feeling but it’s also important to react in a way that others can understand them instead of judge them. It helps them get to know you.

A way to tell if you’re overreacting is by the 5 rule. My grandmother taught me that if it doesn’t matter in five weeks, five days or, five months then it won’t matter five minutes. Getting upset about short things that really don’t affect your everyday life is common and easy to fall into because it’s so easy to ignore. That is why putting yourself in a different perspective/mindset is the best way to go into a situation level headed. If you have this recurring reaction and it is long term the best way to go into this is also with a level head. Calming yourself down and looking at a situation in a third or second person view can help evaluate your reaction.

You are overracting if you are jumping to conclusions. Repeating yourself to people about a problem they know you are already going through. If your heart is racing and have anxeity, if you are on google.com typing in what you want to hear or don't want to hear as you panic about what is causing the reaction. It is hard to have a clear mindset when I overract and I am sure it is the same for others as well, so it may not be apparent you are overracting until someone close to you tells you. If they do then take my advice, and take their advice.

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