Recently I have been overthinking stuff,I been worrying about this and having regrets about that,like worrying that bad things will happen before it even did and also regrets to things that is already over,like I should respond like this instead of this
I had got used to overthinking stuff l,it’s been happening for almost 10 years that it become a habit of mine,I had been trying hard to not think too much,it’s hard but I think it’s possible…I think it might need a few years(hopefully less than 3) with effort and work put in to overcome overthinking and living a real life instead of living inside my head
Thank you for reading,it’s quite a long post,but I really want to know what do you think?
I can overthink about things in the future I’m supposed to do or are in line to happen. Usually results in me thinking worst case scenarios.
Then there are times I can overthink to the point it’s hard to find an answer because I’ve tied myself in metaphorical knots.
Over thinking and ruminating is part of the package.
I over think a lot of odd things… then I get myself worked up about it and try to fix something about myself that no one else even thought was a problem.
For a while… I was thinking I wasn’t blinking enough and that might make people uncomfortable. So I was always trying to time a blink every few seconds… and then I would feel bad if I didn’t blink as much as I thought people were supposed to.
Yes, pszs may see combinations and relations in the world that do not exist, it is a part of paranoia, little triggers may cause some strange thinking processes. I think a lot.
A problem I am cursed with is over-the-top pattern recognition skills. It means that when I read the news or talk to people, pieces of information ‘click’ into place for me and I will suddenly have an idea of where someone’s actions are trending. (I am VERY GOOD at predicting election results, for example). It would be a valuable skill for me if I also had the social skills to put this knowledge into action. What usually happens is that I get frustrated and blow up at people for being too slow. I hate having to wait for neurotypicals to take half a year to catch up to what is completely obvious to me.
It has gotten to the point where I wish I didn’t have this ability since it brings me more grief than relief.
What if all schizophrenic were, were brain chimeras, with a unseen twin brains overlapping each other. Maybe thats why we hear voices and overthink, theres a schism and we got two of each brain region.
overthink? me?
My dog was trapped outside the door because I shut it, so it was nosing and looking under. I couldn’t figure out whether it’s perceived presence was still in the room, outside, or somewhere in between. It’s hard to just let go of this stuff.
I think a lot. Always analyzing, my brain doesn’t stop.
Sometimes I wonder if people know that I have schizophrenia, or if there is something wrong with me. Especially since my close friends know, I wonder if they’ve told their gfs or other people. That makes me think too, then I get down when I know that I have this illness.
Or I think a lot about life, and whether I should end it.
For two or three years, my brain had been rusty and numbed , so it was very hard for me to think continuously on something. I described this as a poverty of thinking which is linked to a poverty of speaking. But recently this poverty of thinking has been improved and I feel more alive inside. I now can think about something continuously. This improvement maybe caused by a food supplement -lecithin.
So if you can keep thinking over a thing, then your med is not bad for thinking ability. I guess Abilify is good for maintaining thinking ability, and the Amisulpride I am taking is not very good in this.
I used to thinking over 10 yrs. without 1 second rest, thats a extreem rare symptom i have. I have done a lot of research online and came upon few forums that people have my symptom, but none of them been diagnosed, i told about my symptoms to every psychatrist i had, they just remained silen.
I didn’t know other people didn’t think like me until I was deep into my 30 years and freshly Dx’d Sz.
My brain was always in high gear trying to understand my world around me and attempting to link things together in anyway plausible. I would go forward in time and backwards as well when not otherwise needed. It was nothing to bring up from memory stuff from long ago as if it still new. Time was not linear, and could be played out in scenes until done the way I thought right.
Was news to me that I was the one who different according to my pdoc.
