Kopfkino: the inner cinema.

Imagine watching a movie, then a cinema, then watching a film, then watching a YouTube video, then watching TV, then doing it over and over again…
That, I think, is how I would describe overthinking. You play scenarios in you head, and much of it is you ruminating over the same thing. You build up elaborate fantasies and tear down perfectly alright realities.
The Germans have a name for this. Kopfkino. And it quite literally means -mind cinema.

Kopfkino is both the body and the shadow of a wildly imaginative and creative person.

But if anything is a reassurance it is this-
You are the director. You get to say- “CUT!” when you want to. And you are the MAKER of your story.