Not able to stop talking

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Does anybody ever have times where they literally can't stop talking?


There are times (mostly when I'm tired I think) where every thought I have ends up coming out of my mouth... It's not the same as a lack of a social filter, because in that scenario, I MEAN to say things, and I find out it wasn't socially acceptable after... But sometimes, not very often, I want to just be quiet and sit with my thoughts, but I feel as if I have no control over my mouth and the words coming out of it. It's also not tourette's, and I wonder if it has to do with my adhd or something. I'm just hoping someone here will understand and possibly be able to relate.

It's mania. Or hypomania.

EDIT: So I'm going to be a bit more helpful. It's called "pressure of speech". It could be ADHD too, but that it was only sometimes and that it happened when you were tired - and you were tired because you stayed up and didn't sleep, weren't you? - sounds more like (hypo)mania to me.

I am myself not like that, but I've had an acquaintance who couldn't stop talking. She would talk non-stop and others have no chance of stopping her without being rude. If there was nothing to say, then she had to come up with lies and rubbish that she could say. I found her very annoying, too, but now I understand the difficulty she was having. All the people around her found her annoying because of that and she was aware of it, and yet she couldn't stop it. And I think that was one reason why she was depressed. I don't know what condition she had.

I find I talk too much when I'm anxious, also I don't like being around other people with awkward silence, and since I can't tell the difference between awkward silence and good silence I just keep blabbing.

I try to keep pencil and paper with me in those situations, so I can doodle, or do something else to feel like there is something going.

No, it's definitely not like that anomiel.. I don't think it's mania or hypomania, and the being tired is actually usually from a long day where I've had to be more social than normal- I guess it could even be attributed to executive functioning in that manner and the inability to switch the social part off. I can have an actual conversation, I just say everything that pops into my head. You know how on TV the character might say one thing but think more than they actually say for one reason or another? I don't think any of it, I just say it all in these situations- As an example, say someone says the weather is nice today and you think about how sunny it was and so on and say "yes." Instead of thinking it, you'd say, "It was sunny today, the wind wasn't too strong either, yes." Luckily it's fluent. It doesn't annoy or alarm anyone and I don't take drugs either. I guess I have more control than people who are having mania or hypomania episodes, and it just feels like I have no control over it.


Stoek, it could be that, too.. That it's silent and I feel the need to make that go away and it's just on a subconscious level or something.

Chlov, I'm not on medication for my ADHD. I was only diagnosed a few years ago and I had already been able to control it for the most part, but I may look into it one day. I'll be sure to see if it helps this.

Nikkt, I like your thinking!

Thanks for the input so far guys

If you look more closely, I didn't write that first sentence you claim I did about it being a disorder of the listener, that was Nikkt. I never even quoted it. I'm not sure why you think I was the one to say it.


Just in case you're not sure which I'm referring to, it was "But I'm going to be facetious and claim that it's actually a disorder of the listener - they don't have the processing power to keep up. " Is something Nikkt said that you agreed with.

I noticed that under autistics -especially HFA and AS- that when they started to tell something that they HAVE TO finish. I get this too in certain situations and get mad when someone interrupts me then.

When I'm stressed I do this. It's essentially a stream of thoughts coming out of my mouth which I can't stop. My brain jumps about between topics and links things that I don't normally notice. I start stimming too as I work myself up even more, it's like my mind is one of those circular basins that you can put a penny in - it circles faster and faster until I become incomprehensible.

Sometimes my housemates try and talk to me through it but they end up getting very confused because I switch topics and keep repeating myself. It happened the other night. In the end they just say, "George, the time for talking is over, you have to stop now. Go to bed."

I get like thins when I'm with my friends. I'll start talking to them about anything and than I move on to every topic that pops up. There was even one time when one of my friends said that I drove them nuts at an event because I was talking the whole time.

Rule of thumb in social interactions:

- Never say something obvious (people won't respect you if you do this)

- Never say what is not necessary

- Make sure you say what actually is necessary (that includes small-talking to avoid awkward silences, what you are doing etc.)


The result is: not talking too much, but not being too quiet either.

This is obviously easier said than done when it doesn't come naturally.