India, Oct. 29 -- The digital era comes with many eccentric habits and quirks, one of which is rereading a message you already sent and overthinking whether you said the right thing. Every punctuation, emoji and letter is scrutinised to evaluate if the tone sounded rude, or reply was too curt or a better emoji could have gone. Before you know it, a simple text triggered anxiety.

Once you know the psychology behind it, you will be able to improve impulse control. A senior consultant psychologist at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai, Dr Rituparna Ghosh, simplified why sent messages have such a vicious cycle of overthinking and how one can stop this habit.

The first reason is how the message is received. The psychologist attributed the anxiety...