Too many thoughts, unable to focus, my body cant keep up.

Thank you so much for this reply. It is very useful.

m afraid of myself m having d same problem .........i think i enjoy doing this but i dont get sleep ........m so tired ....it feels like m taking drug or m so damn unconscious .....i love to live alone n m 23 its became my habbit now my negative mind made me think distructive .....it gives me destructive illusion n i enjoy it .....even when i drive ...i sit eat ...i think i make skyscrapers and i make a person fall from in to its refuse shoots .......m tired now ..i feel like a scientist some time .......

initially i use to like this process bz i am i architect i use this process to imagin and l use to see a view of city through this but when i have got involved .......

i just want to come out ........

I had the same issues, turned out to be gluten. I stopped eating gluten and my thoughts stopped racing.

This is life changing!

So I don't know why I'm doing this but I've been on meds for bi polar and depression. With out them I get pretry wild and not a happy person. In this life I wish I didnt feel the way I do, I wish sometimes I didnt want to throw someone into a wall. I dont do it because no one deserves that. It kills me inside because I don't want to be near anyone and I have my wife and my 1yr old boy. That's what hurts the worst. I read the bible and work very hard to go by it. But my feelings and emotions sometimes overwhelm me. It feels hope less like I'm wearing a mask. And I can't get it off. Any comments?

hey reading this is crazy because everything you are saying is happin to me and for me smoking makes my mind go farther then its every been I would really wanna talk to u to see if the same thing is happing you can email me

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Sounds like Iike you have ADHD to me (I have the same issue and drugs are definitely not not necessary unless you have another underlying cause - therapy helps an amazing amount.

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I have the same thing. It happens whenever I'm being lazy like ready, trying to get to sleep, or playing games. I hate it so much. I get so overwhelmed I feel like crying. Sometimes I get really sad for no reason. I hate the thoughts though, plus they're usually weird thoughts that I don't like. Anybody know what this could be? It also could just be stress, I am only 14 so school can be stressful I guess, but I doubt that's it.

What a brilliant way of explaining the human mind in such a easy way that even as I was reading your thread my mind was doing just as you was explaining to concentrate on posertive thinking and was ignoring the negative thinking , thank you I feel a tad sane now lol.

Want to know something funny? The best indication of your "too many thoughts, is too many words! Your posts are long. I understand though. I'm guilty of the same thing.

I had a kind of epiphany today. I realized that the only thing I was really consistently aware of were my immediate surroundings and my current thoughts and emotions. Self-absorption. I'm capable of making tasks, but they are becoming increasingly simplified and repetitive over time. It works for my style of life, but not enough to live with total financial independence for example, or full-time employment.

I've noticed that I can barely even listen to people anymore. And when I do so, it takes considerable effort. As a teacher, I talk a lot and am usually the center of attention, but no one can live without listening to somebody. Even reading the other posts here is a struggle.

Maybe it's because I just recently quit all of my sins: drinking, smoking and sugar (in fear that I will face addiction, which is common after leaving alcohol). It's actually going well, I have to pat myself on the back.

But I keep getting these drives to just do what I find easier. I'm stressed, can't focus enough to read a book, just play a video game. Instead of planning at work, I do everything on the spot (which admittedly, I'm pretty good at). Know what the problem with this is? If I stop challenging myself, everything will just keep getting harder and harder, until I'm totally fogged out on your couch, and are calling into work because I'm "sick". Soon, I'm falling into "philosophy", and rapid swings in moods and beliefs from one idea to the next.

I've been diagnosed as bipolar, and it's probably true, but there is something clearly wrong with me. Two years ago I did something that put me in mental institutions for six months. The last 1 1/2 years have been a slow and inconsistent but nonetheless, improvement.

Now I'm running into these symptoms, the ones that had me laying on the couch so long that I feel into delusions, wandering neighborhoods. The ones that had me sleeping (not even a wink) for two weeks in a row, where I could no longer tell night from day. The ones that took six months to heal.

I'm scared. I do have a psychiatrist, I'm seeing him soon. I'm about to start seeing a therapist again. I'm falling back onto my CBT/DBT from the hospital days. Quitting all the drinking and all of that. Going back to church and starting AA. But please, someone pray for me, I'm so worried to lose everything I have achieved in the last two years....

Now, I'm no psychologist,
Although I study psychology
And have gone through a similar situation as you
While writing a theory
Generated by weed.
You know..
The usual psychotic sh*t

But anyway
I think you affliction lies in the thoughts themselves
Is your life very "thought driven"
Or perhaps, "Ego based"?
You seem to become tired due to thinking so much that your body slows down...
Does the middle horizontal line in your hand, bend down? (Optional 4 theory)

I believe the mind to be a quantum-chemical-biotic computer organism.
Which acts on thoughts or thinks on action
And the degree to which we do either of these things
Determines our reality experienced subjectively.

I believe a possible solution to your problem may be
Releasing thoughts.
Concluding thoughts sooner, to compartmentalize them and remove them sooner,
And replace thinking periods,
With physical, or focussed mental labour.
Now you must commit to mentally and physically focussing
Your brain is like a muscle
Untrained, it won't serve its purpose for you
If you don't focus and claim your life
You will not live it
Only ponder it until you forget to blink

Meditate
Do sports
Learn a language or an instrument.
Focus your mental energies off whatever your mind is keeping you focussed on
Or at least, deal with the thoughts you're having.
Find their source, and correct it's mistake to progress beyond them mentally and spiritually and then hence, physically, however... You are going to PHYSICALLY have to EARN your MENTAL STRENGTH.
And

I believe in you...
Good luck to you. And be safe through your travels. Take care of yourself.
Enjoy the journey of life
Find love
Accomplish
Discover
Live

- Dr.Philosophous

I used to have this problem while in college-sounds like an age ago, but feels like yesterday.
It happens because of the routine we are at the same place everyday, captured almost, so our only escape is becomes a mental escape.
I have several suggestions:

1-Do outdoor fun activities in the weekend: Let yourself know that you are OK to access the outside world even during college.
2-Give yourself a schedule: yes writing a paper could be a bit frustrating at first, but it can be even more frustrating if you don't set a schedule for it. Do not make it a ONE DAY ALL DAY task. Make it a twenty minute 3-5 day task.
3-Build a positive emotional connection with the good outcomes of this task. A good grade, a positive feedback, a possibility to transfer, a happy professor, and most important an education.
4-What does it take? ask yourself what's forbidding you from starting? You like blogs? OK give yourself a certain time-limit watch whatever blogs you like, take notes! Be ready to share what you learned, try to incorporate things you like in your assignments.

Just because you are not physically hyperactive doesn't mean you don't have ADHD. Hyperactivity can take many forms, and hyperactive thoughts are not an uncommon symptom of ADHD.

Wow, even same things happen to me often!

I'm really happy to hear someone with the same thing as me. I have done so much reasearch Bc I've been told I have many different mental disorders like bipolar and stuff but I just can't shut up my head sometimes. That's the real problem. So I'm trying to still find a solution but I have a feeling it's not just me.