(I'm not sure if you're still curious or looking for responses, but...) I think that's happened to me before. Or something similar, because my thoughts are one step away from being verbalized-- They're closer to being verbalized than being pure concepts, but they're not totally verbalized. At least, what makes me think that what I experienced is similar is the way you said it's overall very uncomfortable
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Yeah, I guess completely verbalized was an overstatement. It feels like I am perceiving sentences faster than I could actually ever say them, maybe even faster than I could read them.
My usual thoughts are scattered like that too, I think, but it's much easier to thread part of it into a monologue which is what I usually do (and generally I do neglect all the other thoughts, I think... hard to tell cause these racing thoughts have been going on a couple weeks at least which makes it difficult to remember what is normal for me).
Yes! I think what makes it so hard for me is that I can't make it slow down. It's also very demanding, almost "loud", and that makes it hard to focus on anything. I can get into an outwardly-quiet place, but I can't make my own head quiet enough to ever calm down, and I just get incredibly overwhelmed trying to deal with it. It's sort of like my usual, but magnified a lot in volume and number.
Sorry it's been going on for so long. I think my thought process has gotten much more scattered in the recent years-- I think it used to be much easier to block out the background thoughts, at least. Right now, it's typically easier to quiet things and pick out just a few to focus on, but getting down to just one or two seems to be a completely random occurrence. It makes spacing out really easy and multitasking really difficult.
Yeah, I have the same problems with not being able to really relax or concentrate because of these thoughts. It really is unpleasant... I'm a total hypochondriac, so I've been wondering if it's a sign of some mental illness, in which case at least there would be some way to treat it.
When I was in middle school, I'd have a lot more of the background thoughts; then I stopped noticing it for a while. I guess it comes and goes.
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My usual thoughts are scattered like that too, I think, but it's much easier to thread part of it into a monologue which is what I usually do (and generally I do neglect all the other thoughts, I think... hard to tell cause these racing thoughts have been going on a couple weeks at least which makes it difficult to remember what is normal for me).
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Sorry it's been going on for so long. I think my thought process has gotten much more scattered in the recent years-- I think it used to be much easier to block out the background thoughts, at least. Right now, it's typically easier to quiet things and pick out just a few to focus on, but getting down to just one or two seems to be a completely random occurrence. It makes spacing out really easy and multitasking really difficult.
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When I was in middle school, I'd have a lot more of the background thoughts; then I stopped noticing it for a while. I guess it comes and goes.
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