Controlling your racing thoughts?

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Does anyone else try to use their racing thoughts n other nuances to good use? Instead of concealing or supressing?

I tried to be creative but typically, very few projects were bought to completion and lots of materials were wasted. What do you do?

Thank you to anyone who reads and i appreciate your time.

Dealing with Excess energy i try to practice muscle control and symmetry through stretching and dance and yoga rather than self mutilation and doping.

I used to be very uncoordinated and nervous till I thought of reflections and tessellations across an axis like your spine, add more quadrants at midsection, add 3rd dimension with range of motion and time to make it flow... Flowing math dance. Lol

When I detest myself and my own existence as a human, instead of dwelling on cyclical negative thoughts. I try and think of the situation in a reality outside of space and time to gain perspective outside the mindset of a human. In an attempt to break the negative cycle and see a clear picture outside negative emotional filters.

I also get rid of Excess emotional energy
By a combination of method acting AND singing. THis is one of the quickest ways i can get rid of excess emotional energy.
(But i rarely do this due to shyness)

When I am so down on myself that I no longer recognize myself or my humanity,
i start to re examine the nature of man from that dissociAted stAte to understand my fellow man and my own nature. This has yielded many insights and breakthroughs in understanding others as one can perceive the obscure and expressed thoughtforms and nature of the entire being.

I do apologize if my words are hard to understand. I do not think or process thoughts in words. So it is difficult to get my thoughts into language.

Point being...I find it sad that many of us are forced to suppress that which makes us unique and view And to others struggling, find a way to use ur quirks to work in your benefit.

Does anybody else use their symptoms to their benefit?

I do not know what you mean by racing thoughts. Perhaps you might better describe them. Do they normally occur during the night in your late dream state? Or do they occur during the day? In the day, do you put your body on autopilot and then let your mind race away? [a disassociated state] Do you ever feel like you have two brains - one operating at normal speed and another overlapping brain racing away like a go-cart moving at light speed.

Racing thoughts is not an unknown for me and I would say racing thoughts is my central state of being, they happen usually at night and sometimes in the day. When my thoughts are racing, usually sensory sensitivities will increase and body awareness will also increase and the external world will seem more intense and I'll be hyper-aware of surrounding. When I have racing thoughts, they are auditory thoughts, usually anxious and paranoid thoughts, that occupy the mind and occupy the mind quickly, that come with a manic scanning of the environment, looking for danger signs, etc and some bodily feelings. Writing has been a saviour as a grounding technique and sowing words/ideas onto clothes. It has also helped with making music. I put the blame on the thoughts due to that, they are not my thoughts. It feels like they usually come from an external force, sometimes they have no correlation or relevance to me. Sometimes the thoughts will tell me to do something. I occasionally break free from them through relieving the anxious racing thoughts, and finding the beauty in the surrounding area. I sit alone by the river and surrender to nature and the nothingness of my eyes being closed and get a feeling that my body and mind is dissapearing, almost that my existence is being retrieved by the surrounding sounds and smells. Every now and again, I will be able to think clearly and rationally. It is almost like two realities working together but I do not deem this a negative thing, in fact, life would pretty dull without the secondary reality.

I also get racing imagery of memories of being physically abused by someone but I will not go into that here.

No idea how to control them. I do take moments to lay down, close my eyes and let my brain think of whatever it thinks. Usually totally random things that really have no basis in reality. When I've done this, I usually feel more clearheaded and stable, it's like once in a while you just need to let your brain go complete nuts and it blocks the racing thoughts for a while.

I try to use it in creative ventures, but it's hard to harness and direct. It takes me a lot of effort to actually stay on a task long enough to complete it.

It helps with freestyling though.

Mine is usually not racing... instead it wants to jump off of a cliff, probably bringing my body with it as well. But I consider myself fairly safe for letting these thoughts do their thing, since I would probably be locked in my bed by then.
Otherwise, knowing more than a couple languages definitely helps, and I translate stuff to move my mind around. Websites, song lyrics, random stuff. But I usually mess up because I keep thinking about multiple problems at once, so I still suck at translation.

It might be a trait of ADHD.

I started using the Muse-S. It teaches you to game meditation by focusing on specific sounds during meditating. I have found the sleep journey to be lacking, but the breathing and heart rate meditations have helped with racing thoughts.

I describe my brain as the Overlook Hotel. Every room is booked with ghosts, and it is my job as caretaker to be aware of every single conversation that has, is, and will take place in every room

Well first of all it helps to not consume caffeine or an overload of sugar
For me Magnesium-citrat(300mg per day) helped a LOT to cool down, relax and getting rid of most of my anxiety.
Doing exercise can really make wonders as well.. Last thing I can recommend is meditation, eventho I find it brutal trying to meditate while having racing thoughts (I can't meditate because of this issue, but I wish I could)

I have actually dealt with this. One way to control racing thoughts is meditation. Try meditating 30 minutes a day. That works for me. When you are meditating, you are focusing on something and your mind slows down. There are plenty of resources online that teach you meditation.

I would give a vote to creative activities such as music, poetry, art, etc.

For excess physical energy (which can contribute to anxiety) then exercise can be really good.

Also having someone who will listen to you go on about something and actually care about you.

I think for pretty much everybody, the speed of thoughts exists along a spectrum. It's not like you're thinking quickly or slowly, but more like you're thinking really fast or sorta fast or slow or barely at all. How I "control" my racing thoughts depends on what speed they're going at.
I have ADHD, so the "default speed" of my thinking is already quite fast. At this default speed it's hard to focus on any one thing very long, especially if I find it boring. One of the major ways I deal with this is medication, specifically Adderall. I also try to make things a game and try to give myself some background stimulation, so to speak, so that my brain doesn't get mad about having to do something boring. Writing an email to my advisor? Boring. Listening to music, stimming, and thinking about a book I was just reading while mentally constructing a fanfic about it? Less boring. So if I have to write an email to my advisor, I listen to my music, I bounce my legs or rock back and forth, I let my mind go where it wants, and just type out the email. Then a boring task becomes less boring. I also have an app on my phone that turns to-do lists into a game where task completion levels up your character and helps you fight monsters, that also helps make the mundane more engaging.
But that's just the default speed.
If we call that a medium speed, there's also "medium-high" speed to deal with. When that's the case I really can't do one thing for long. Best way to be productive when my mind is going at medium-high speed is to have 3 or 4 different "productivity stations" set up. Again, I'll be listening to music and I'll spend 5 minutes tidying up my room, then 5 minutes reading my textbook, then 15 minutes pacing, then 5 minutes checking email, then I'll get a snack, then another loop or two through the productivity stations, then walk my dog, and so on and so forth. Basically giving my brain lots of stimulation from different tasks and interrupt the tasks with pacing and listening to music so my mind can go where it wants.
But that's just medium-high speed.
If my mind is at it's top speed, productivity doesn't exist. There's really no chance of me focusing on anything. During these times I just put on my headphones and listen to music while my brain ricochets from thought to thought. This might be for 10 minutes, it might be for 3 hours. Eventually it stops and I read or watch t.v. or whatever. Medication helps a lot at reducing the frequency of this speed and putting me in control more.
Basically the best way for me to control my racing thoughts is to give myself outlets and other forms of stimulation (both mental and physical). Also, when my brain tells me focusing on something else is important, sometimes I can set a timer on it or just get it "out". For example, earlier today I was studying and something in the textbook made my brain say "Hey, here's a follow up question about something you just read. You should research this question." And instead of going down that rabbit hole (which would have kept me from finishing the textbook chapter I was trying to get through), I made a note in my planner (I use a bullet journal, which can be helpful for ADHD brains) to explore that topic after the studying, and once it was written down my brain let me go back to focusing on my studying. A moment later, my brain said "You should write your girlfriend an email, that'd be nice" So I made a note to do that and was able to stop thinking about it.
Of course, sometimes such things aren't options. If I get unusually fast thoughts in the middle of an in-person lecture (of course haven't had any of those in awhile) I can't just switch activities. That's why I tried timing my medication doses to my lectures. But when I did get racing thoughts in the middle of a lecture, and it is bound to happen, I would focus on keeping taking notes. Note-taking is a mechanical process, it's almost like a way to fidget, so I never had trouble focusing on writing down notes. The process of taking notes sort of forces you to also focus on what's being said, so that was the best tool I found for that context.
Okay, so quick summary of how I control racing thoughts:
1) Medication, it really does help.
2) Give yourself physical and mental stimulation (this can be listening to music, stimming, thinking about other things, etc.)
3) Jot down thoughts to get them out of your head.
4) If you can, switch frequently between tasks at the speed that your brain wants to.
5) Use note taking to "force" your brain to process information.
Hopefully there was something useful in here for others, though of course what works for me might not be what works for you.

When my mind starts racing, I'm having blow out arguments with people in my mind; or obsessive thoughts about something I have seen or heard and disagree with. I pace and have anxiety, and can't make it stop. It used to happen more at night when I was younger. I can't say it has ever been any benefit to me.