Since everyone seems to have a diagnosis these days, I've been looking for one and I think I just found it over on my friend 40winkzzz's blog. She says she is "A Person Who Thinks Too Much" and I think this describes me to the proverbial T (wouldn't you love to know where that idiom comes from? I would.).
In true diagnostic style, we should have definite diagnostic features:
first, an acronym. We cannot clearly expect to be taken seriously with a clear-cut name like 40winkzzz gave it, so how about PWTTM, NOS disorder. That is, "Person Who Thinks Too Much, Not Otherwise Specified disorder. The NOS allows us to open the diagnosis up to thinking too much, regardless of subject ~ whether it is analyzing our children's behavior, the clothes worn by people around us in Church, the points value of the sauce on our hamburger, what we can blog about next, whether or not we'd want to live in a yurt, the meaning of a particular passage in Greek, what's for dinner tonight with nothing thawed, or whatever else. NOS is very handy.
then of course we have to have some rule-outs - things that are similar but should not be confused with our syndrome. The first one that comes to mind is Beats A Dead Horse Syndrome (BADH Syndrome). People suffering from BADH Syndrome overlap symptoms of PWTTM, NOS as it looks like they are thinking all the time; however, the savvy observer can tell they are really doing the opposite and just replaying something they already have thought about.
and we need a list of criteria for diagnosis.
* early development of worry line wrinkles on forehead
* unexplained presence of a dictionary in each room of the house
* spends half an hour a day or more making, organizing, or looking for missing lists
* stares at walls trying to recapture previous brilliant thoughts
* writes blogs about strange and meaningless bogus diagnoses | 
