Head won't shut up?

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Do you guys ever feel like you're head just won't shut up? At times I will find a position that ensures all of my vision is black, and I love it. I love the feeling of living but not having to smell or feel or see because I can actually look through the thoughts in my head. When I am just being normal and walking around I get so confused about what I am doing and who and I with and what they are saying. I will often completely forget what someone has said only seconds ago or sometimes loose my balance because I'm focusing on an image of black in my head. When I was in hospital I would put my hands over my head and ears so I couldn't see or hear then I would focus of an image of complete black, then imagine myself falling through it and I loved doing this because I felt like I wasn't in real life anymore, I couldn't feel my body. I can't seem to do it anymore though. Does anyone else get stuff like this?

I hate when my head wont shut up, its too overwhelming.

I draw to quiet down my thoughts when I need to listen. Stupid teachers would kill me for wanting to draw when they talked. I needed to draw to quiet down my brain in order to concentrate of what they were saying. Teachers can be traumatizing bullies, worse than kids.

I get this too. My OCD is horrible sometimes. I focus my mind similar to OregonBecky. Ipod helps too by focusing on the musical instruments. If my mind won't participate I turn it up until the music becomes the bother - switch it around.

I also found myself doing this in hospital. I would listen to a track on my iPod at full volume and perform analysis on the track. I would also try to put myself in the Author's head and try to figure out what they thought when they did a specific part of a track.

has anyone ever had the feeling where u are inwardly berating yourself constantly for whatever reason? i hate that.

I STILL have THAT problem! The one of the busy thoughts, etc... seems to be mostly over with.

So I'm not the only one who's brain is constantly talking to me! What about having your thoughts "said" to you as if you were in a story...in third person? You know, for example, I'm sitting here typing and my mind just said "and she's sitting and typing in the lunchroom at school." It's like having my life narrated!! !

I felt that way more before I started SSRIs.

I get it whenever I eat wheat and other gluten-containing food. And it gets worse and worse the longer I carry on eating wheat/gluten!
Until it reaches such a state of almost painfully constant JABBER, like actual noise in my head, that I decide to stop eating wheat again and then there is CALM.
Bliss!

Yeah, I do that exactly. I screw something up (maybe something I forgot to do at work, or a social interaction that didn't go exactly correctly or where I or the other person misinterpreted something) and my brain beats me up for it for ages. I sometimes have "flash backs" where a (usually trivial) event-sometimes even from over a decade ago-pops in my head.

At home I usually end up shouting "I'm stupid" but obviously around other people I keep that to myself

Agreed. I've always said that playing my music so loudly was the only way that I could get my head to shut up.

WOW, I can certainly relate to that!

Meditation helps quiet the mind.