Why You Should Not Intellectualize Your Feelings

 I wish I knew sooner that you can’t intellectualize most of your feelings, especially if it involves pain.

For a little context, I used to be so mentally and emotionally exhausted because I entertained my overthinking by intellectualizing every bit of my feelings because some feelings are just too unbearable that I thought was a healthy way to escape it or relieve yourself from it was via understand its cause and accept the cause. Little did I know that that specific is what leads me to be so mentally exhausted, depressed and addicted to unhealthy habits. You see when you are so exhausted, your brain is begging you to escape even the feeling of fatigue. So when you keep feeding the monster, (the overthinking), you can’t stop the thoughts right away, right. so you’re used to find solutions to the little things that your brain can’t even be on its healthy sleep mode. so when you constantly micromanage your feelings, you lose the fundamental on the basis of managing it. In order to actually manage feelings, is not by intellectualizing it. Lessons and reflections will come later, but the key to learn from what you feel is to actually give yourself to feel it completely.