I still remember the day I realized my thinking was driving me crazy. As an aspiring academic in college, I believed in the value of the mind in creating worlds of complex ideas that could solve all of humanity's problems. But in my personal life, I had no control over my thoughts and found myself obsessing over a new relationship to the point where I was so anxious I could hardly eat or sleep. Did it or didn't it Will it or wouldn't it The doubts and negative scenarios that stirred up in my mind took all the joy out of life