Overanalysis is the process of scrutinizing every detail, every variable, every possible outcome, until the entire system collapses under the weight of its own complexity. It's a delicate dance between thoroughness and paralysis, where the lines between insight and indecision blur like the horizon in a fever dream.
Psychologists have long recognized overanalysis as a defense mechanism, a desperate attempt to avoid the uncertainty principle and the terror of the unknown. But what happens when you're not just avoiding uncertainty, but actively courting it? When the only certainty is that there is no certainty, and the only truth is that there is no truth?
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