“Why do I have to know everything?” What is hypercontrol and how to get rid of it

Hypercontrol affects anxious people and is summed up in the need to want to know everything.

There are those who hope to be able to predict everything that happens, who look for solutions before the issue even happens, who look to the future and struggle to stay in the present.

Living with the need to control everything is difficult because – quite simply – it is not possible to do so.

There are problems that cannot be predicted or planned for, and for hypercontrollers even a trivial unexpected event can become a source of anxiety.

We explain how to get rid of it once and for all.

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The first thing you need to do is understand if you are a hyper-controlling type of person.

For example: are you always the one who organizes and/or wants to decide what to do? Are you exploring any future hypotheses about what might happen? Do you always need to know what the worst case scenario is to feel prepared for disaster?

Welcome, you hyper control!

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If you find yourself in these words, you will know how much energy is being stolen by the need for control.

Constantly searching for information, wanting to know everything about the people around us, always trying to manage everything ourselves, avoiding delegating to others are painful issues.

If you are this kind of person, you probably have a low tolerance threshold and frustration is just around the corner.

But there is good news: the responsibility is yours alone, and therefore you can change things.

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Believing that you can control everything is just an illusion.

In fact, while you are busy thinking about something, something else will pass under your nose without you even noticing.

There will always be something that is out of your control, something that you are not an expert in, or something that is relevant to the case that you did not foresee.

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To reduce the need for control, you must discover what is behind it.

For example, this could reveal a deep insecurity. Often the only way to feel more secure is to have a false sense of control.

Anxiety and the need to anticipate tragic events that occur in the mind of those who always fear the worst is the direction that drives hypercontrol.

The solution is targeted psychotherapy to understand the origin of thoughts and find new and more functional strategies, but you can start by asking yourself questions to which you will give honest and increasingly detailed answers, starting with: what am I afraid will happen?

Source: www.sitoireseto.com