>>329665604This kind of, but it doesn't always work. I suffer from rumination and whilst a job, at the time, helped by turning my focus towards something else, it was only short lived. It got to the point where I could do the job independent of my mind and once that happened, my obsessive thoughts and overthinking returned.
Even going for walks or exercising with music blasting in my ears doesn't shut my mind up. It's like a will unto itself.
