My mind always go into thoughts, i always over analyze incidents that happened once, let say i had a some time of conversation with a friend, 2 days latter even week latter, that conversation pops up in my mind and i start analyzing it, or say i dont want to friend with a person because of things he says or done, those actions and words that came out from that person often reminds me and i analyze what expelation i am going to give when i cut the ties with that friend. Sometimes i will come up with sime idealogy and start analyzing, and if that topic ever talk about among others i will talk about what i have analyzed, and usually i suprize people with my ideology. But when i am in to those analyzing deep thoughts and someone calls me on the phone i will talk with that person and when i hang up the phone and try to analyze what i was thinking about, i would not be able to do it, its like my racing thought stopes…
Because of this symptoms i am diagnosed SZA. Now i want to know if this is called racing thought or this is complitly uncommon symptom.
It does sound like your trying to fight through some racing thoughts… things that pop up and circle round and around and around again. It sound like when you get distracted the racing thoughts stop.
For me… it’s either rehashing the same conversation over and over or sometimes… not being able to let it go and then thinking it’s going to lead to worse stuff later on.
Sometimes the wheel in my head spins and the thoughts all begin to clank into each other. My brain just jumps from one topic to the next in seconds. Or if I’m on the verge of a panic attack… it’s a small thought that grows catastrophic in a matter of minutes.
Some of the ways to calm racing thoughts… have worked for me… write them out to get them out of my head.
Go for a walk to tire out and distract myself…
Once I’m tired and my mind calms down a bit more… meditate and focus on calming the mind.
Good luck.
Hi @Mindwhisperer I usually get racing thoughts when I am hypomanic or manic or mixed (mania and depression)
Because your diagnosis is SZA there is a mood component to your illness, so maybe sometimes you get revved up and have rapid thoughts.
Sometimes anxiety or OCD can cause rapid thoughts as well - I have anxiety and OCD also
My racing thoughts are always with me especially when i go outside to smoke or when i am watching tv but there is nothing interesting to watch, but when i am accompanied with people i dont get racing thoughts, basically its with me every time i am borred, and usually my thoughts are about one topic even if it takes 30minutes, my racing thoughts never jump from one thought to another. Sometimes i enjoy my thoughts and i would love to be in my thoughts, but since i know its a illness i get frustrated too.
My thoughts get rapid lots of times when I am alone in my bed and trying to get some sleep - all kinds of busy thinking occurs.
You know as I am reducing the Risperdal, I am noticing that my thoughts are getting more normal - normal for me, because I have bipolar disorder is more rapid thinking - a busier or unquiet mind, this is my normal.
Antipsychotics slow down the thought process significantly - maybe you need some time to adjust to your lower dose of Risperdal - you are less medicated, thus the faster thinking - it takes time to get used to
They sure do. The Seroquel slows down the wheel in my head considerably. It helps me think and keep my thoughts straight.
It’s the Latuda that gets me up and moving and battles back the negative flats.
I was same when i was on high dose of risperdal, and same as i am on 1mg risperdal.
Do you honestly believe that medication is going to be a permanent option for racing thoughts? Or is it the creativity and imagination from channeling the race into a translatable perception? How can you cope naturally? And what of medicine? You know it won’t remove the memory, or help your creativity. BUT SOMEHOW, medication is meant to help us…and this is good I take latuda, Zoloft, abilify, prazosin, trazodone, gabapentin…I mean just a slew.
But I’m songwriting still, I’m taking my racing thoughts and dispelling them through artistic expressions that can dispel a (recurring thought pattern).
I hope that you can (define) these thoughts, because I know it to be a wellspring of potential greatness for you and others.
Have you undertaken a (creativity project)?
Such as an instrument, pen and charcoal art, poetry or textile creations?
I’ve been encouraged to (get it out), in a healthy creative way. And I must say,
I believe it helps.
Well this racing thoughts always reminds me that i carry mental symptoms with me every second. This is why i get frustrated for.
Einstein used to get (lost) walking around the block not knowing of which house was his…Thomas Edison had severe add, all these great people have been faced with great problems. I heard the guitarist for Pink Floyd had schizophrenia, we’re not alone lol.
Racing thoughts…disoriented thinking. My mind disagreeing with itself repeatedly. The medication helps this more than anything for me but isn’t perfect. I can’t get a coherent sentence out because if I think one thing a conflicting thought will come in and disagree with it. It’s utter chaos and madness.
Maybe my racing thought is the elevated tryptamine level in my brain, the reference should be 330-1300, and mine is 2250, thats twice as much.
Just have to run, run it all away, move faster than your thoughts, over thinking separates the body from the mind.
i had racing thoughts the other night and its not nice especially when trying to get to sleep,
it was just thoughts that were spinning around in my head, flashing by and you can’t grab them, its hard to focus on any one particular thought, its like your brain is over active or hyper or something,
so i phoned up the crisis help line and the guy talked to me for a long time, and it did help a bit but talking helps me and i think it was just that there were so much going on at the moment that it was really affecting me,
i think i pinned it down mostly on being angry with my dad as i was going to the garden of rememberance the next day, but there was other things that were affecting it as well, its never anything simple which is â– â– â– â– for us lol
One more thing i would like to ask you all. Can you control your thoughts, lets say when you have racing thought can you distract yourself from that thought, by turning tv, or youtube or try not to think, because i can, the only time i cant if there is something bothers me and that worieng thought keeps poping up in my mind.
Are you talking about Intrusive thoughts?
Either way sounds like a med tweak is in order. Some therapies - I’m mainly thinking of the mindfulness as less intrusive than other therapies would help like CBT or ACT.
Racing thoughts are like throwing a ball of yarn into a room full of cats.
They just come at you at all at once.
Racing thoughts used to make my brain feel like oatmeal and was actually quite painful. Oh man, the bad memories.
Are racing thoughts similer to obsessive thoughts or as my pdoc says pre-occupied thoughts? Sometimes when I have a upcoming meeting or when I’m stressed I get very obsessive thoughts and I think and plan every minute detale about whT I’m going to do or saying and then it goes around and around in my brain for ages preventing me from sleeping.