"Along with three quarters of a million other people, I’m a member of r/AmIOverreacting, a forum on Reddit devoted to the problem of potentially freaking out too much...."

"If anything, r/AmIOverreacting is a kind of reactivity buffer zone—a place where reactions can be mediated, and so slowed down. In that sense, it’s part of a larger, society-wide effort.... Mindfulness is another way of managing one’s reactivity. Broadly speaking, mindful minds seek to replace the question “Am I overreacting?” with the neutral observation that, yes, a reaction is happening. In the pre-baby mindfulness workshop I attended, our instructor told us to imagine our emotions as locomotives. 'You can watch the train leave the station without getting on board,' she said. She encouraged us to react to our reactions with nonjudgmental attention...."

Writes Joshua Rothman, in "Are You Overreacting? How to survive when provocations are a natural—and inescapable—part of life" (The New Yorker).

I don’t feel that I overreact, in the sense of habitually responding with too much intensity or duration to specific situations in my life. But I do feel that I’m over-reacting, in the sense of being too frequently poked and prodded into feeling something by someone or something else. The other day, taking my kids to the library, I passed a car festooned with bumper stickers; one of them—“Donald Trump Matters”— caught my eye, and I thought about it on and off for the next half hour, as my son made a Christmas ornament at a craft table and my daughter tried to stand using a beanbag chair. It’s easy for such moments of provocation to chain together, so that a day becomes ensnared in little ringlets of reaction. I often want to break the chain....

A day ensnared in little ringlets of reaction... that sounds like a blog.