Overthinking

• Process of thinking about something for an unreasonable long amount of time and overly analyzing it (Morin, 2023)

• Always having a second guess on decision made, always thinking about the worst consequence, hard to relax and mental exhaustion

• Environmental stressors like catastrophe as well as psychological stressors like pressure, uncontrollability, and frustrations can lead to the act of overthinking

- all international students in China are not allowed to return home this life taking and uncontrollable situation = students have higher tendencies to overthink and seep in negative thoughts (Jamshaid.S et.al, 2020)

• Really stress, lost and miserable

• Not considered as a mental illness

• It has the potential to cause various mental illness. For instance depression, Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD), panic disorder and many more (Morin, 2023)

Burnout

• Stress, perfectionism, and overthinking had led me to burnout

• To maintain the standard and to live up to the expectations

• Difficult to focus, study and to be as driven as I was before

• Plans were all over the place and started to feel meaningless in everything I do

• Long period of stress that triggers exhaustion, hate emotion towards something that one used to be passionate about and low level of motivations (Scott, 2022)

• Exhaustion.

• Over-usage of one’s emotional and physical resources (Maslach & Leiter, 2016)

• Feels drained and used up, with no energy to carry out their day

• Cynicism = detached feeling towards one’s life, job and things that they were passionate about - coping method to the overwhelming stress and workload