Overactive mind

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Very hyper-analytical. Apparently the emotional part of the brain stops this, so it may be impaired.

"INPUT."

I don't have an overactive mind. My mind seems to be on screensaver mode most of the time, a kind of a daze wandering from thing to thing until something grabs my attention and I focus on that for as long as my horrible attention span will allow me to.

Though, of course, I do have lapses into my OCD in which case I can't stop obsessing on the flood of compulsive/invasive thoughts.

Seems like my mind never stops racing also. I also have problems sleeping and I've tried sleeping meds (trazodone which is supposed to be one of the safest and mildest) but I had a tough time remembering to take it 30 to 45min before sleeping. Then if I didn't take with just the right amount of food I would wake up with a strange headache. But most people I've talked to who take it aren't that sensitive- they take it without food, etc.

Carl

Well it seems like outside influence would eventually restart your mind so I don't think it would have to start up again all on its own, but it still seems unlikely that anyone's mind would stop in the first place..
even when you're not really focusing on anything, you're still thinking about something, like bonuspoints described.

I have that problem, if it is a problem. I'm pretty used to it. As a teen I used to write all the time. Boxes and boxes of journals, plus day planners, to-do lists, random thoughts on napkins and paper plates. I got a lot of thought's out that way.

In my early 20's I had a few episodes of mania. MY GOD it was like being on one of those Graviton rides at the amusement park. Faster and faster and whipping through emotions and words just as fast. My whole being was vibrating.
It sucked. They tranq'ed me.

Now, so long as I'm mentally active (read: "on the computer") my thoughts are funnelled into a straight line. Only when I'm alone and quiet does it bother me, usually because I can think some real depressing /catastrophic things.
I try really hard to steer away from those thoughts since they're pointless and don't help me at all.

I have trouble sleeping because my brain will not shut off....sometimes I get sleepy due to exaustion...my body is tired, but my mind is still thinking on auto-pilot...then I just pass out due to fatique and I dream weird crap all night. The only time that I dont think is when I first wake up. My brain is like I was just hatched when I first wake up...I dont feel anything and I dont think anything...I am just numb all over..alive but only physicaly. Then at about 45 min. after waking...my soul re-enters my body (just kidding...kinda what it feels like) and I am thinking about the darnedest stuff until I try to go to sleep...and then cycle repeats. I used to have this idea that anything that I learned, I would forget the next morning and I would have to learn it over again. One time, I was afraid to go to sleep because I would lose my personality (forget it) by morning. I stayed up for 4 nights until I was halucinating due to sleep deprivation. Then I passed out. I still had my personality when I woke up...at least after 45 min.

An overactive mind is why my mom thinks I have insomnia.

I have Insomnia coz my mind is active and won't stop thinking things. If I think of nothing, it leads me to think of "blank", which leads to "white", then "clouds" and so on. A chain of thoughts.

The only way I can fall asleep within 30 minutes in bed, is if I have had a shortage of sleep from the night/s before.
Therefore I have alternating days in which I sleep easily and sleep hard.

I felt that sleeping pills or Melatonin/Valerian pills would help me, but my overly strict parents won't allow me to consume any medications at all (they think ALL medications are bad), so I have to try sleeping the hard way.