How do I know if I'm overreacting?

I say out loud what I am doing as if I were going to tell someone about the situation and if it sounds unacceptable to me or like I am making it more dramatic than it should be, I know that I am overreacting. By saying it out loud, you can see how foolish or serious your actions are by physically putting out there for you to comprehend the situation. It is all about putting things into perspective outside of your own point of view to see if you are overreacting or if others believe you are. Just take a second for yourself and breathe. Calm down.

This one is broad but if its about a particular situation when I start asking myself this question I first check what mood I was in at the time the situation occurred. If I was anxious or hungry I know I'm much more sensitive to people's moods and feeling and will most likely think the worst of their intentions, generating a reaction. However, if I'm not tired or hungry and was pretty okay and the situation occurs then I can usually assume I'm asking this question through self doubt and invalidation of my own feelings. Therefore more likely than not, I'm not overreacting and whatever happened hurt me and needs to be addressed. This could be the same for past traumas, if I've felt this way for a long time then no you are not overreacting. If it has hurt you then you deserve to be addressed and validated and hopefully produce a change or solution. I hope this helps!

If you feel like you don't love and accept yourself in that moment. You couldn't judge your action as overaction if you were accepting yourself , your emotions and feelings.

Over thinking, and becoming anxious over small things are signs that you are overreacting. Best thing to do is to take ten minutes breath in an out in four counts and relax. Then come back and solve the situation

I know I am overreacting when my tone gets high and I have a hard time focusing on how I am feeling.

Your emotions starts to race so fast and you "act" before you "think". Everything hits you so personal and you cannot see things from an objective point of view.

think about it....imagine being in place of who you are upset at and then you will realise because sometimes we only remember our situation but we should think about others too

The best way to tell if you are overreacting is to have a look at how others are treating the subject. This happened to me in primary school, i was overreacting about something but everyone else around me was acting like it was not too much of a big deal, so i decided to to tone myself down abit to a level that was like the others.

Once you start questioning! Then it's the point you start being over Breath and count to 3 before!

If you are jumping the first chance you get instead of listening and understanding the situation, that is overreacting.