Scenario 1:
Phase 1: conformist simplicity. You are credulous, believing in everything you hear from the masses. You don't think a lot, and the few thoughts you have are shallow.
Phase 2: anxious overthinking. You realize what the masses believe is mostly non-sense, and you think for yourself, and feel anxious in the process, as your previous way to look at things is shattered.
Phase 3: non-anxious overthinking. You feel calmer or even upbeat while you keep thinking critically and keep exploring various possibilities.
Phase 4: you have overthought so much that your "thought density" is so high that your thoughts collapse unto themselves.
Phase 5: New Simplicity. It's a light-hearted temperament, with shallow and upbeat thoughts, but non-conformist, and a lot more aware and less naive than in Phase 1. Everything you learned in Phase 2 and Phase 3 remains, but you no longer need to actively think about any of it, it becomes part of your subconscious intuition, while your feelings remain light-hearted.
...but it may not necessarily go this way... (other scenarios maybe coming soon)...
Scenario 2 (same as scenario 1 except you get stuck in Phase 3):
Phase 1: conformist simplicity. You are credulous, believing in everything you hear from the masses. You don't think a lot, and the few thoughts you have are shallow.
Phase 2: anxious overthinking. You realize what the masses believe is mostly non-sense, and you think for yourself, and feel anxious in the process, as your previous way to look at things is shattered.
Phase 3: non-anxious overthinking. You feel calmer or even upbeat while you keep thinking critically and keep exploring various possibilities.
Scenario 3 (same as scenario 2 except you get a new phase of euphoria)
Phase 1: conformist simplicity. You are credulous, believing in everything you hear from the masses. You don't think a lot, and the few thoughts you have are shallow.
Phase 2: anxious overthinking. You realize what the masses believe is mostly non-sense, and you think for yourself, and feel anxious in the process, as your previous way to look at things is shattered.
Phase 3: non-anxious overthinking. You feel calmer or even upbeat while you keep thinking critically and keep exploring various possibilities.
Phase 4: euphoric overthinking. You feel euphoric, very happy, perhaps even super proud of yourself while thinking about everything in detail and categorizing things in a neat, cool manner!
Scenario 4:
Phase 1: Conformist simplicity, believing everything you hear from the masses.
Phase 2: Anxious overthinking, and you're stuck there, for the rest of your life.
Scenario 5:
Phase 1: Conformist simplicity.
Phase 2: Anxious overthinking.
Phase 3: Back to conformist simplicity. You thought that "overthinking" was a bad thing and removed all thoughts that one gets in the early phases of overthinking (relativism, nihilism, apathy etc.), then went back to believing everything the masses told you, because it's simpler, because you don't want to take so much effort for something that may be "wrong", because you're scared of thinking of yourself... if something goes wrong, you want to blame someone else, not yourself.
Scenario 6 (extremely rare???)
Phase 1: Conformist simplicity.
Phase 2: Euphoric overthinking. You got joy and happinesss from the deep and detailed exploration of concepts and brainstorming of new ideas. You truly have a "love for wisdom", and it won't cause you any anxiety or existential dread.
Coming soon...
1: Overthinking always leads to depression and existential angst.
2: Overthinking usually leads to depression and existential angst, but there are some exceptions.
3: Overthinking can lead to a wide variety of different feelings.
3.1: Overthinking may either lead to depression, or to a feeling of profound wisdom (which one may then feel proud of, or remain more humble, depends).
4: Overthinking can sometimes lead to euphoria.
5: Overthinking always leads to euphoria if done "completely". People who get depressed when overthinking are simply not overthinking enough, and this leads them to the "uncanney valley of overthinking", where their thoughts are not simple, but neither are they to the sort of complexity that leads them to be euphoric (or, as people who believe in the psychiatric worldview would say, "manic").
Coming soon...