{"id":47847,"date":"2026-04-03T11:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47847"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:09:38","slug":"overthinking-is-rarely-an-advantage-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47847","title":{"rendered":"Overthinking is rarely an advantage | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracy Marshall <\/strong>describes how the worrying natter of her internal world, thankfully, fell silent<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to read Polly Hudson\u2019s article on overthinkers like me (Faithful, sensitive, forgiving: overthinkers like me make the best partners, 29 March). I am 51 now and have spent most of my life at the mercy of my ability to \u201cturn even the most pleasant, benign interaction into a horrifying encounter that definitely caused offence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Someone once described me as a sentinel \u2013 forever observing and analysing myself and, as a result, never actually living in the moment and enjoying the freedom from guilt and shame and self-loathing that the under- and perfect-level thinkers around me appeared to achieved without effort.<\/p>\n<p> Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy Marshall describes how the worrying natter of her internal world, thankfully, fell silent I was delighted to read Polly Hudson\u2019s article on overthinkers like me (Faithful, sensitive, forgiving: overthinkers like me make the best partners, 29 March). I am 51 now and have spent most of my life at the mercy of my ability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14796,4543,18417,20476],"class_list":{"0":"post-47847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-advantage","9":"tag-letter","10":"tag-overthinking","11":"tag-rarely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}