I’ve been overthinking ever since I started high school (4 years ago) and I’ve only realized that I overthink a lot at the beginning of my senior year. I overthink about everything when it comes to my relationships with people, including friends and potential partners. 

I noticed a pattern to my overthinking where the closer I am to someone the more I overthink, and it’s especially bad if I’m in a relationship with them. If it’s a friend it’d be mostly in person where I would keep on thinking that I’m a bother to them and that it’d be better if I left and not disturb them. This happens more with my female friends than my guy friends. 

When I’m in a relationship I would be fine for the most part until I see or hear about certain individuals. Then I would just start creating these fake, stupid, hurtful and probably unrealistic scenarios in my head which just hurts me. I personally think these scenarios are only created because of reasonable suspicion, with the amount of time they hangout or how close they act when they hang out. 

I’m tired of just overthinking like this and causing strains in not only my relationships but also friendships, is it even possible to stop this?