I feel like sometimes attaching undue meaning to things is the way for us to try to make sense of the wold around us. We fill in gaps, in knowledge, understanding, perspective, by assigning our own orchestrated meanings to make more sense. But yes, on the one hand where it reduces the discomfort of not being able to understand or reach to answers, it creates further distress by leading us to incorrect and often misleading answers. Being able to separate the facts from our own perceptions of them, saves us from so much unnecessary over thinking and stress as you've mentioned.
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Attaching undue meaning to things does help us make sense of the world but often that sense is a little distorted. At least, that's how it has been in my case. But I do accept that we are all different and how we perceive things is different too. So sometimes undue thinking does work for people.