About thinking and worrying all the time

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It's like my mind has no off mode. I ponder things all the time and I worry about stuff most of the time. I even think and worry in my sleep sometimes. If I'm worried about work for example (which happens quite often since I really hate that place) I even dream about it while asleep. I always find something to worry about.

Thinking isn't necessarily a bad thing. I love thinking. But I really don't know what it feels like when your mind is quiet. Do you?

First make sure you are getting enough rest. Then make sure you are eating enough--of mostly healthy stuff. Trying to starve yourself thin is not healthy, and because it is not nutritionally complete and not satisfying, it leads to binge eating. The skeleton look is hideous, not cute. Just eat plenty of mostly healthy stuff.

Next, you need to find ways to occupy and distract yourself.

- Exercise. It generates mood boosting endorphins.
- Read funny stories and watch funny shows. Humor also generates mood boosting endorphins.
- Volunteer. There are people out there worse off than we are.
- Take up a hobby.
- Join a club.
- Take courses, either in person or online. Some of the online ones are free.
- Surf the web.

Ditto.

Yes, my mind is on the go all the time. It was much worse before my daughter was born and I worked, in a job I hated. I worried about it an awful lot. I sometimes did a full day's work in my sleep (if and when I got to sleep), woke up and found I had to do it for real. Would you say you are stressed? I have stresses these days, with my daughter, but they are completely different to the stresses I had at work. Although I have concerns about her, I don't tend to lose sleep. My social anxiety/ phone phobia, etc were a big problem at work. I don't have those now. What is it exactly about your job that you don't like?

It's the same for me. I'm pondering stuff every second I'm awake.

I have exactly the same, which can be really great at times but sometimes it feels too much, as if everything is spinning around my head. Too many thoughts to process, I find I can help control it by listening to music; I can focus when I have music on.

The other method I use it meditation, but this can be really difficult at times, find whatever works for you.

I hope this helps.

To stop worrying, you have to do something about the things that are worrying you.

That's why worrying exists, as an aid to preventing future problems.

You're not supposed to ignore your worries. You are supposed to act on them.

The fact that you are always worrying and thinking could be put to your advantage. You are seeing more potential problems than the average person does, you are more aware of what could go wrong in your life, and if you applied your energy and focus correctly, you could eliminate a lot of these potential problems before they ever have the chance to do any harm, while other people in their state of unawareness are not so lucky.

You would feel better in general, having not only reduced your worries by eliminating the things that cause them, you will also gain the satisfaction of having applied your mind's troublesome extra energy in a constructive way, and you might even use up enough to let you fall asleep now and then.

It is better to gain comfort by getting rid of things that cause discomfort, rather than by just trying to ignore them and hoping they go away.