Racing Thoughts

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Its wierd for me because sometimes when I am speaking to myself in my head my thoughts and everything else around me seems to get speeding up really quickly has anyone experanced that do you know what that is?

I can say for sure I do. Ever try to follow four separate but simultaneous trains of thought? That's a tough one. It's like having two TV's, a sports broadcast on a radio, music playing and then having to follow an actual train of though when all the others constantly interfere. I go through periods when I have constant chatter in my head. I know what it's like to scream "shut up" and be talking out loud to your own mind. It just won't stop. Sleeping becomes impossible....it just won't stop. That's part of mania...not saying you are bipolar, but my mind only races like that when I'm manic. if your mind races like that (or if you hear music playing out of your bathroom sink) seek help......

Usually when I'm not having an episode, my brain functions kinda like a pinball machine....my train of thought is like the little ball bouncing around all over the place.....my thoughts are very disorganized and sort of all over the place.....due to this I have a very short attention span, am impulsive am very easily distracted by not just external stimuli, but also from the workings of my own mind....the ideas that pop up...then morph into other ideas, and so on. I rely heavily on post-it's to keep track of important tasks I need to do. If that seems more normal to you than the first type of racing mind, I don't think it's a problem, unless you are really disturbed by it.

I get it bad when I have insomnia, its a horrible feeling, over a simple thing like going to sleep

I do it, but it just feels intense. Sometimes I can make some good come of it (it works like inspiration and motivation), and sometimes it just does me damage for a time. I wish I had a way to just slow it down, turn it off, when I couldn't handle it... but I wouldn't lose it if I could.
I don't mind usually when it causes insomnia, because I don't sleep a lot anyway, but when I do want to sleep, it's bothersome. A friend with AD/HD has this problem, and worse than I do.

hmm i am pleased some one mentioned this was beginging to think it was just me
and dare not post it.
what have you been diagnosed with sublime your symptoms seem like mine, only ive not got to the post it stage (yet)
infact i can relate to all the posts but more yours sublime. i am realy sick of mine, it feels like a rulet wheel most of the time
try explaining it to ur friends.
but it does have its good sides,
i like to creat music out of all the different thoughts i have at once, i can play four instruments at once fairly well and keep
a good tune going hmm until another thought comes.

This has always been a problem but it used to be more social issues (past and future) that I was trying to ork out in my head mixed with some obsessions.

Now it is a constant war with what I should be doing(looking for a new job, cleaning the house, working on the craft store) mixed with my obsessions. I pretty much avoid social situations so unless there is something bad that happened at work or I have to go talk to a DR soon...I don't think about that part much. I end up not doing much because I am avoiding the things that are the hardest (job hunting and making a decission about it) and not allowing myself to do my special interests because I know when I start them it is hard to stop...the exception is on-line research about AS and WP....I just can't seem to stop this one.

My head is a mess.

The post-it stage is a way I adapted to my racing thoughts and pinball machine brain. It's a way to be able to function and get stuff done that needs to be done, because I can't rely on my own mind to keep track of what needs to be done.

My mind doesnt always race like how I described it in the first paragraph. That's mania. I have Bipolar I Disorder, and that's what it's like as hypomania progresses into full blown mania and I'm pulling my hair out screaming for my brain to just shut up. I also have some autism spectrum disorder (dx'ed with LFA as a child buy am HFA as an adult). ADHD was also mentioned, but I didn't do well on stimulants like Ritalin.....made me stim and develop a tic, and did nothing for the impulsivness, attentiveness or anything....ADHD can make your mind race too. Both bipolar disorder and ADHD pretty common in people with ASD's.

I seem to have this sort of absent minded professor syndrome (complete with the labcoat and safety glasses). I have a very short attention span even when I'm not manic, unless I'm really interested in what I'm doing, and even then....the flight of ideas often prevents me from doing much of anything. That's where the post-it's come in....they really do work, and they help me work.

I don't know if the pinball machine mind and the post-it's are due to autism or the manic side of bipolar disorder. Even when I'm not manic I do rely on post-its, because my thoughts are just bouncing all over the place....and very disorganized.

I guess I've gotten used to it. However I do suggest if you are at the stage where you hare hearing a bunch of chatter in your head that makes no sense and it feels like it's going to explode....maybe see a doctor. Racing thoughts can be a sign of mania, as is having really big ideas, spending more money than usual, being more outgoing than usual, being more impulsive, sleeping less, eating less.....sometimes you just crash, other times, you can become delusional or psychotic or both.

I have this problem too. It's like I'm in a huge crowd trying to listen to the guy wispering across the room. :/

Ritilin used to help LOADS with this, but no doctor will give me a script. I used to get it from a friend in HS though... man it made freshman year a breeze.

Yes, I get like this a lot especially when I am inspired for a new novel idea. I describe it as my thoughts are "going eighty miles an hour" to my friends to try to make them understand, but I can't explain to them the physical antsiness that accompanies it as well.

basically that for me, when I think of something I just think of random ideas, are hyperthinking, etc. It's always good to write (or type; many of us have s**t writing) it down

Oh my god...I thought I was the only one with a brain on steriods.

I can't get to sleep at night because of this. My brain won't shut up. I'll start talking to myself in my head and start shuffling through long strings in information. When I'm in that 'state', I usually put myself in a school situation, like in class for example. Then I would "uncap" myself and start blabbering everything I know about my past obsessions.

I guess I do that because I have no one tell all that to in real life.

Oh, and it's those times when I get huge sparks of original ideas and creativity. Too bad I fall asleep afterwords

pleased you have posted that Sublyme my mind is pretty much the same, although stress and situations i cant figure out seem to be the corse
which along with my other symptoms kind of points me towards aspergers. hmm but maybe it could be both, which ever it is i strugle to live a normal life but sleep and eat very well. i have a friend who has bipolar which is what put me towards aspergers, i will have to contact him.
i am going to see the mental health team soon and i am starting to put things down on paper like this.
i am sure there is a triger not sure what but i have got that desperate i have had my hair shaved of, felt like my hair was some kind of
arial hmm it has helped aswell daft as that sounds.
thanks for posting every one its certianly made me feel better, disgusing this to anyone ellse just is not possible

Yes, on cheese, coffee, bacon burgers etc, to a degree that is painful, like a torture can not stop.

Then cut out cheese and gluten/wheat, bacon and etc, and ....... bliss.... absolute peace!!

...... well, everything is relative.

I drank a coffee today, ( got visitors, so got to keep up, ) and so find myself posting for first time in over a week; mind buzzing!!

I also get racing thoughts.

I am actually Bipolar too

I used to ALWAYS have this case where it was like a LOT of people speaking in my head REALLY fast(I'm describing the feeling, more than anything else. It wasn't ), and I could have several lines of conscious thought going on at the SAME time.
That WAS one thing that kept my up.

Today most of the voices are gone, and I am lucky if I even have 3 real conscious thoughts going, though I can have several just below that.

As for things slowing? SOMETIMES I slow down but, USUALLY, it seems like everyone ELSE does, at least if doing so can slow me down. In such cases it is like I actually go FASTER! It is almost like one of those movies where the protagonist is shot, or something, and sees the whole thing happen SLO MO!