Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Stop overthinking and rumination to reduce depression and anxiety with these 7 strategies involving mindfulness and CBT. For more details on each, check out my free self help courses at selfhelptoons.com and to support my channel please see the links below ๐
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0:00 Intro
0'35 Productive vs unproductive thinking
1:09 Overthinking and taking action
2:05 Accepting reality
3:00 Reframing thoughts
3:25 Postpone thinking
4:40 Mindfulness
5:48 Distraction
6:10 Grounding/breathing
6:55 Overthinking and sleep
7:29 Summary
Credits:
Cartoon People by VectorToons (vectortoons.com/) CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Sight, Touch, Hearing, Smell and Tasting Icons by heathersabrina from the Noun Project thenounproject.com ใ ค
About the Creator: Created by a Registered Psychotherapist with a Masterโs degree in Counseling Psychology and over 25 years of experience in child, adolescent and adult mental health. These videos make evidence-based, empirically supported psychological concepts accessible through animation.
Stop overthinking and rumination to reduce depression and anxiety with these 7 strategies involving mindfulness and CBT. For more details on each, check out my free self help courses at selfhelptoons.com and to support my channel please see the links below ๐
โค๏ธ Join my channel with the JOIN button next to SUBSCRIBE
โ Buy Me A Coffee ko-fi.com/selfhelptoons
๐ PayPal paypal.me/selfhelptoons
๐ Become A Patron patreon.com/SelfHelpToons
๐ TikTok tiktok.com/@selfhelptoons
๐ Instagram instagram.com/selfhelptoons
๐ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/selfhelptoons.bsky.social
0:00 Intro
0'35 Productive vs unproductive thinking
1:09 Overthinking and taking action
2:05 Accepting reality
3:00 Reframing thoughts
3:25 Postpone thinking
4:40 Mindfulness
5:48 Distraction
6:10 Grounding/breathing
6:55 Overthinking and sleep
7:29 Summary
Credits:
Cartoon People by VectorToons (vectortoons.com/) CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Sight, Touch, Hearing, Smell and Tasting Icons by heathersabrina from the Noun Project thenounproject.com ใ ค
About the Creator: Created by a Registered Psychotherapist with a Masterโs degree in Counseling Psychology and over 25 years of experience in child, adolescent and adult mental health. These videos make evidence-based, empirically supported psychological concepts accessible through animation.
