Does anyone have any practical tips about how to stop taking things personally? I find that I get worked up over stuff that I really shouldn't. I start to imagine negative outcomes based on perceived slights, but I often find that those outcomes were imaginary and the slight was unintentional and had nothing to do with me. Or someone might ask me to do something I don't want to do, and I obsess over the situation instead of just saying no and moving on.

I can spend hours of my day on activities related to these thoughts - like if I have a problem with X, I might write about it here, read ten pages of google results about other people who have had a similar problem, etc. It's really time consuming.

Does anyone else have this problem? How do you overcome it?