My mind won't stop chattering away with thoughts!

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Thoughts depend on mood. When I'm in a good mood they go fast - sometimes excessively so, and I can't concentrate on things well. However, they do throw up a lot of random creativity that I wouldn't have otherwise. When I feel depressed my thoughts can effectively stop, and I can spend minutes without any obvious thought.

I have only been like this for the last few years. Before that my mind went at normal speed (apart from a serious bout of depression in my teens when it did go slow at times) and I had to actively use it to think of ideas. Now I can't actively use it so well any more, but am compensated for that by the random ideas that arrive in my head at high energy times. I think that basically I have lost the contact with bits of my brain, which are now operating seperately from myself (i.e. subconsciously) and only become conscious when already fully formed. I haven't felt like the same person since my second serious depression, and think that this might have slightly damaged my brain (either depression or the medications). I have an increasing tendency towards very high mood instead of just low mood (which is fun) but might suggest that I am becoming increasingly bipolar and less able to regulate mood and thoughts.

It's similar to the way that learning to ride a bike and riding a bike are the same thing.

Last edited by Moog on 12 Nov 2010, 10:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I also experience racing thoughts. As soon as I get rid of one thought, another one pops into my head. The only way that I can stop them, is by posting on WP and listening to music. Another way that I could stop them is by doing arts and crafts.

Yup.......the one thing you're not supposed to do is to get obsessional about the result...it's the process of striving for the result that matters, and the effect it has on you, not the result itself.

There's a story that one very keen pupil was meditating 24/7, and when his guru asked him why, he replied "so that I will become enlighted like the Buddha." So the guru sat down beside him and began polishing a stone. When the pupil asked him why he was doing that, he replied "I'm making a mirror." The result never happens.

Last edited by ToughDiamond on 15 Nov 2010, 11:48 am, edited 1 time in total.

Hey Joe90, I get this a lot too. I find it especially annoying when I'm watching films/TV, as no matter how good the film is, after between 15 - 30 minutes I just start getting lost in my own thoughts again and then lose track of the film's plot. It's why I don't go to the cinema anymore, as i find being stuck in a room with no distractions really frustrating and I end up hating the film, even though if I watched it at home where I could pause it every 20 minutes while I do something else to reset my mind, I'd probably love it.