racing thoughts
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February 24, 2017 - 11:45 am
Hey!
How do you manage your racing thoughts? For a week or so i've been having quite intensive racing thoughts and I'm starting to get tired of them, and some anxiety and depressive thoughts are starting to occur.
I've tried mindfulness meditation, but it's quite difficult to concentrate. Also some yoga (able to do it for max 15min, because difficult to concentrate on doing something), which actually helps for a while. Thankfully I can sleep alrigh (with medications), but I wake up with my brain "sizzling", so active, all these clips of music and fragmented conversations are still there and my mind just wanders and wanders in all the possible places + i get pseudo-philospophical about my life (in my head, I analyze my life events with profound wisdom, but it can provoke automatic depressive thoughts and rumination).
Also try to drink only 1 cup of coffee instead of 3-4. No new music, no uplifting music. Actually ended up listening to white noise for hours, it helped to quiet my mind and it was possible to concentrate. I tend to avoid social events, because 1. can't get dialogues and clips of conversation and random words out of my head after that, 2. difficult to pay attention when mind wanders so i don't talk much, and then i feel anxious because i don't talk much and may seem weird (provokes social anxiety).
Any tips?
How do you manage your racing thoughts? For a week or so i've been having quite intensive racing thoughts and I'm starting to get tired of them, and some anxiety and depressive thoughts are starting to occur.
I've tried mindfulness meditation, but it's quite difficult to concentrate. Also some yoga (able to do it for max 15min, because difficult to concentrate on doing something), which actually helps for a while. Thankfully I can sleep alrigh (with medications), but I wake up with my brain "sizzling", so active, all these clips of music and fragmented conversations are still there and my mind just wanders and wanders in all the possible places + i get pseudo-philospophical about my life (in my head, I analyze my life events with profound wisdom, but it can provoke automatic depressive thoughts and rumination).
Also try to drink only 1 cup of coffee instead of 3-4. No new music, no uplifting music. Actually ended up listening to white noise for hours, it helped to quiet my mind and it was possible to concentrate. I tend to avoid social events, because 1. can't get dialogues and clips of conversation and random words out of my head after that, 2. difficult to pay attention when mind wanders so i don't talk much, and then i feel anxious because i don't talk much and may seem weird (provokes social anxiety).
Any tips?
Hey!
How do you manage your racing thoughts? For a week or so i've been having quite intensive racing thoughts and I'm starting to get tired of them, and some anxiety and depressive thoughts are starting to occur.
I've tried mindfulness meditation, but it's quite difficult to concentrate. Also some yoga (able to do it for max 15min, because difficult to concentrate on doing something), which actually helps for a while. Thankfully I can sleep alrigh (with medications), but I wake up with my brain "sizzling", so active, all these clips of music and fragmented conversations are still there and my mind just wanders and wanders in all the possible places + i get pseudo-philospophical about my life (in my head, I analyze my life events with profound wisdom, but it can provoke automatic depressive thoughts and rumination).
Also try to drink only 1 cup of coffee instead of 3-4. No new music, no uplifting music. Actually ended up listening to white noise for hours, it helped to quiet my mind and it was possible to concentrate. I tend to avoid social events, because 1. can't get dialogues and clips of conversation and random words out of my head after that, 2. difficult to pay attention when mind wanders so i don't talk much, and then i feel anxious because i don't talk much and may seem weird (provokes social anxiety).
Any tips?
How do you manage your racing thoughts? For a week or so i've been having quite intensive racing thoughts and I'm starting to get tired of them, and some anxiety and depressive thoughts are starting to occur.
I've tried mindfulness meditation, but it's quite difficult to concentrate. Also some yoga (able to do it for max 15min, because difficult to concentrate on doing something), which actually helps for a while. Thankfully I can sleep alrigh (with medications), but I wake up with my brain "sizzling", so active, all these clips of music and fragmented conversations are still there and my mind just wanders and wanders in all the possible places + i get pseudo-philospophical about my life (in my head, I analyze my life events with profound wisdom, but it can provoke automatic depressive thoughts and rumination).
Also try to drink only 1 cup of coffee instead of 3-4. No new music, no uplifting music. Actually ended up listening to white noise for hours, it helped to quiet my mind and it was possible to concentrate. I tend to avoid social events, because 1. can't get dialogues and clips of conversation and random words out of my head after that, 2. difficult to pay attention when mind wanders so i don't talk much, and then i feel anxious because i don't talk much and may seem weird (provokes social anxiety).
Any tips?
February 25, 2017 - 3:32 pm
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I think a med adjustment is about all you can do. I would call your pdoc ASAP before you end up being manic. While home remedies are nice, they usually don't offer much in the way of relief.
I think a med adjustment is about all you can do. I would call your pdoc ASAP before you end up being manic. While home remedies are nice, they usually don't offer much in the way of relief.
February 26, 2017 - 11:41 am
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Thanks! You're right. I actually thought it's quite normal what I'm going through and not necessarily hypomanic, just some over-stimulation. Discussed it with my friends, none of them said they have felt something similar. So yeah. I need to contact my doc :)
Thanks! You're right. I actually thought it's quite normal what I'm going through and not necessarily hypomanic, just some over-stimulation. Discussed it with my friends, none of them said they have felt something similar. So yeah. I need to contact my doc :)
March 10, 2017 - 9:59 am
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Had racing thoughts, meditation helped - imagining my day from start to end in great detail, white noise and isolating from social events of any nature - focusing on a great big project.
http://www.healthcentral.com/b...
http://www.healthcentral.com/b...
Had racing thoughts, meditation helped - imagining my day from start to end in great detail, white noise and isolating from social events of any nature - focusing on a great big project.
http://www.healthcentral.com/b...
http://www.healthcentral.com/b...
March 14, 2017 - 12:22 am
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h6,
Hope you are feeling better, I get the same way when hypo manic, brain won't shut down, everything is too much. Actually think that it's the source of a lot of anxiety. My body goes into total overload shutdown. Turning off lights and the tv and music helps. Ive taken up knitting recently bc of an arts therapy class. I absolutely love it, gives me something to focus on when I cant focus on anything else.
Blue
Hope you are feeling better, I get the same way when hypo manic, brain won't shut down, everything is too much. Actually think that it's the source of a lot of anxiety. My body goes into total overload shutdown. Turning off lights and the tv and music helps. Ive taken up knitting recently bc of an arts therapy class. I absolutely love it, gives me something to focus on when I cant focus on anything else.
Blue
h6,
Hope you are feeling better, I get the same way when hypo manic, brain won't shut down, everything is too much. Actually think that it's the source of a lot of anxiety. My body goes into total overload shutdown. Turning off lights and the tv and music helps. Ive taken up knitting recently bc of an arts therapy class. I absolutely love it, gives me something to focus on when I cant focus on anything else.
Blue
Hope you are feeling better, I get the same way when hypo manic, brain won't shut down, everything is too much. Actually think that it's the source of a lot of anxiety. My body goes into total overload shutdown. Turning off lights and the tv and music helps. Ive taken up knitting recently bc of an arts therapy class. I absolutely love it, gives me something to focus on when I cant focus on anything else.
Blue
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