Switching off the background noise

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Does anyone else find this: either you sit down to do something that involves some thought and find that there are so many thoughts swirling around in your head - background noise, if you like - that you can't concentrate? Or that all this mental noise is stopping you from doing anything - like you might finish something (that'll be the day!) and you find yourself just sitting there, thinking about rubbish?

Even as I type this, I keep stopping, staring into space and finding all sorts of crap wafting into my mind. Please, let it stop!

This has been my life. I wish I could push a button, switch off all the crap and just concentrate on the job in hand ... and breathing!

I get that all the time, I can't sleep with any noise. But when I am asleep, I have no problems with other noises. I just think I have an over-active mind

Background noise literally gets mixed up in my thinking. Your senses take in much more input than you might be aware. Your brain has to filter it out so it is relevant to prepare it for processing. If you have something wrong you can get things mixed up in your cognition.

sometimes white noise such as the sound of a fan can help

One of the first things that I noticed on beginning my first ever exclusion diet was how waking up on the third/fourth morning my head felt suddenly peaceful, and I realised that I had spent years in a kind of mental cacaphony like living in a shopping centre with piped-music under a motorway and an airport with a construction site next door.

It was incredible. My head had clear silent space in it.

I cried actually, it was such a relief.

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