Nick Trenton’s I’m Anxious and Can’t Stop Overthinking made me look differently at the noise inside our heads There is something strangely exhausting about an anxious mind. It can take one unanswered message and turn it into a story. One mistake can become evidence of incompetence. One uncertain tomorrow can occupy an entire afternoon. And sometimes, the more we try to solve the thought, the more thoughts we create. That is where Nick Trenton’s I’m Anxious and Can’t Sto

There is a peculiar modern habit that rarely receives the attention it deserves. A person can spend an entire day in conversation without speaking to anyone at all. The dialogue happens while driving to work, while scrolling through social media, while replaying an argument from three years ago, while imagining a future disaster that may never arrive. The voice is familiar because it belongs to us. Yet it often becomes so constant that we stop noticing it. That silent, re