I ruminate so much in the evenings that It will drive me mad. Its painful, I suffer, really. The loneliness lasted for too many years for me. I guess no med will help me on the rumination? Whats your opinion?
Somebody who got this as symptom? I feel hopeless still, that’s all 
. I have even bad headaches from this kind of thinking, do you think its bad? hah… most of you here complain that you have poor concentration, me I concentrate as hell on some things… But the result is some kind of overloading of my brain, it sucks… Plus, its an obstacle for some other kind of information. I am concentrated for some things, but bad at some others…
Do you believe that little by little ill could get out of my head?
I use camomile mint tea for anxiety or l theanine and it really does help calm down my thinking, anxiety or not. Maybe it will help you feel better. I think caffeine during the day helps too. Makes you a little more active.
For compulsive rumination there are meds, such as prozac or Anafranil. Usually the same ones that treat OCD. And CBT, to learn to dismiss the thoughts. It’s not easy and not 100% but it helps.
Isnt it the loneliness which caused all this? But I was bugging even before the loneliness. I was stopping myself often on some of the information in order to analyze it so maybe its the illness and now, it just got bad.
I cant handle antidepressants twinklestars, they exacerbate my fears. I am trying lithium but I wonder if it will be a slow process to recover cause I can wait. Is it bad to ruminate so much with the fear that ill never get better?
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Thank you tukey, ill try the calming teas ok. But am I right that I can struggle this obsessive thinking as the others manage to beat their depression by efforts mainly?
Prozac and most of the other drugs used for OCD are SSRIs, but the older ones, like Anafranil are tricyclic. Personally, I hated Anafranil, but it works really well for some people. I can’t take prozac anymore either.
The meds by themselves help but work best with therapy.
Yes, it’s bad to keep ruminating, it won’t help you.
Ok, thanks for the answer. Ill see if the lithium will calm down my mind. My doc said that I look very depressed but it can be the negatives of the sz too…
I guess sometimes efforts dont help, no?
Very little can be done without effort, but effort without strategy is mostly just a lot of work.
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To stop rumination, I speak the word “stop” in my head as many times as I must because it causes my brain to reset and start again. Sometimes I have to say it out loud when the rumination is particularly loud.
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Neuro bliss relaxed me it has l theanine in it. Magnesium taurate relaxes me too. I take propranolol for restlessness but it makes me tired.