In my last session with my therapist, she deduced I have a behavior I’m going to call “rehearsing.” I have repeated thoughts, in the form of complete sentences, where I try to articulate an idea as if I am going to have to explain it or argue about it in the future. And I’ll repeat this explanation or argument in my head multiple times. And this isn’t in preparation for an event, like I’m going to give a speech or participate in a debate. And now that someone else has mentioned it, I suddenly notice I do this constantly. I feel like I’ve lost the ability to differentiate this from regular patterns of thinking. My therapist thinks it would be good for me to reduce how much I do this. This is in service of reducing stress on my nervous system, which my therapist believes is a big part of why I have difficulty doing things. 

 You can’t get rid of bad habits without replacing it with good habits. Have any of you had this problem, and what were you able to do to alleviate it?