How do you make your brain "stop"?

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05 Mar 2012, 8:36 pm

Depersonalization is odd. I think I had it more often as a child.

I play a lot of computer games. XD Sometimes I go to bed and turn off the lights for... half an hour and I feel better after that. I can cope with thinking a lot most of the time and when it gets to much I lie down and I feel better. Usually, depression gets there before there can be an overload of thoughts and I have a general feeling of helplessness. I have those moments about... two of three times a month, sometimes more.

You know what is a good way to slow down your thinking? Holding speeches in front of class. Because then, for once, my mind is a blank. Even my worries somehow stretch endlessly.

You know how the brain perceives time? If you feel good, time will pass quickly. If you feel bad, the reverse happens.

But it also depends... if I feel really unwell, a lot of negativity is compressed into a short space of time. Fun!

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05 Mar 2012, 8:45 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

I simply cannot recommend you do what I do to make your brain stop....

come on ... go ahead sweetleaf ;-)

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05 Mar 2012, 8:50 pm

antonblock wrote:

Sweetleaf wrote:

I simply cannot recommend you do what I do to make your brain stop....

come on ... go ahead sweetleaf ;-)

Get drunk...I still don't advise it, but there you have it.

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05 Mar 2012, 9:42 pm

I tell it to stop repeatedly.
I take psych meds.
I exercise.
Every once in a while I'll meditate.
Good music or engrossing television sometimes takes my mind away from the rat race.

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05 Mar 2012, 11:10 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

katwithhat wrote:

Tuttle wrote:

I find petting a kitty helps.

My cat is great stress relief, I just wish he would let me pet him as much as I would like.

Tried naping in my cramped car in the bright sunny afternoon just before a college class once and actually got myself to fall sleep by visualizing that I was petting my pet kitty cat at home.

So apparently even visually that your petting your pet can do alot.

Have you guys seen the movie, Dune?

Trip.

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05 Mar 2012, 11:15 pm

MjrMajorMajor wrote:

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Has anyone ever TRIED yoga? or tai chi? Prayer and meditation?

These things are disciplines and require self-motivation for benefit but none of them are hard.

I've always had trouble quieting my mind. I also count things. I use a mix of yoga and tai chi to find my center and calm my spirit.

I've found these can be very effective. Now, cultivating the discipline to do it daily is another issue...

Exactly. When I can, it's great; I can actually sleep and have wonderful dreams. But, ya gotta do it.

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05 Mar 2012, 11:28 pm

For me the only time that my mind is "quite" is as said befor, after sex, drunk, baked, for me the best is sleeping under water for six to eight minutes at a time peace that I cant even get while I sleep any where elts. But I dont recomend it as you may drowned. Forgot one just have a grand mal seizure it stops the activity but boy does it bite when you're coming out of it.

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05 Mar 2012, 11:55 pm

SammichEater wrote:

I am not aware of any solution to this.

Most likely due to our mixed up wiring in our brains, unfortunately I don't think there is a solution.

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06 Mar 2012, 7:55 am

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I guess a lot of physicists and astronomers are on the spectrum. Well, those who are actual scientists, not teachers. Because they are hungry to know more. I know it's the stereotype, but... modern Physics is a very ambitious project and it needs people who ask substantial questions. Only those will make an effort because they see a point in what they are doing.

It is exhausting to be unable to not think about how the world works, but what would be the alternative? Not think about why things are the way they are?

That is why I do not like organized religion. It tells you what to believe and you can't believe anything else.

I agree; if I am an "actual" scientist...I wouldn't have thought "What the hell I was thinking"...its because I am an engineer, and I was thinking about something..or rather a lot of things that has nothing to do with my career or my life...

and regarding "religion"... it is another episode that pops and go inside my mind... I'd dwell on knowing a lot about it..and stop...and come's back...and everytime... I always think...There is truth about GOD...

But I guess what I just don't agree is the religion which strictly adheres to rituals...the dos and don'ts which do NOT adhere to the natural way of life... where CHANGE is continous... when religion trys to stop nature and the changes that's going on and involves God.... I'd think it's ridiculuos... besides God created human...NOT robots...

Sorry...That was just my brain going full swing... :lol:

there's a lot about it...BUT I guess it's a topic that will never end and has no definite conclusion...that's why believers call it faith...

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06 Mar 2012, 8:04 am

johnny77 wrote:

For me the only time that my mind is "quite" is as said befor, after sex, drunk, baked, for me the best is sleeping under water for six to eight minutes at a time peace that I cant even get while I sleep any where elts. But I dont recomend it as you may drowned. Forgot one just have a grand mal seizure it stops the activity but boy does it bite when you're coming out of it.

SEX could really knock me out to sleep...getting drunk will..BUT I'd regret it the next day... :lol:

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07 Mar 2012, 12:49 am

This really ticks me off that there is nothing to do about this. Several times a week I will knock myself out with whatever I can find to get a few hours of sleep just to escape the non stop brain activity. I know it's not the best thing to do, but when I get to that point, I feel I have no options.

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07 Mar 2012, 1:00 am

My brain is always going but somehow I can get to sleep when I'm tired (8 hours a night).

I can drink or take benzos etc to 'knock it out' but that always made me feel worse later, both physically and emotionally.

I suggest riding the wave

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07 Mar 2012, 2:07 pm

Benzodiazepines: Valium, Klonopin etc. add some Benadryl for added effect.

Alcohol is a bad idea. It works but at a terrible price. Used to do it a lot but now stay away from it completely.

Exercise, mind stimulation etc. just makes the problem worse. Advice to indulge in such is usually given by NTs, but for us it seems to have the opposite effect.

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07 Mar 2012, 3:10 pm

katwithhat wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

Dont know what to do about it, but you might think about getting a job with RGIS Inventory Service.

We are not only paid to count merchandise in stores all day but you're expected to count objects in groups- not adding them in your head- but keying them into a portible computer in groups and letting the machine do the adding. You see a row of bottles of soda pop -key them in in groups of three- and the machine tells you there are 12 in the row. And you go to the next row.

Might as well get paid for your obsessive compulsion!

I think I just had a mental orgasm.

Did you mentally moan? Ah, nevermind.

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07 Mar 2012, 4:41 pm

Spend less time using your brain and get into your body. Sports and exercise in general

sex is good

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07 Mar 2012, 7:32 pm

Surfman wrote:

Spend less time using your brain and get into your body. Sports and exercise in general

sex is good

Have two friends who are, not on the spectrum but, are consumers of the mental health system and take what i call "head meds" for psychosis.

They agreed that they like construction work because the exsertion and physical pain was good because it made you feel "less psychotic"- and that it took you mind off of -well-your mind!

Might apply to the op, or not.

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