Thinking WAY too much. Can't stop thinking.

JediKnight

Member
I tend to think much much more than I talk, sometimes I think so much that conversations around me are just noises. The thoughts just get to me and I cant stop thinking. If theyre negative thoughts I dismiss them out of my mind, but there's always something that will make me lose awareness of my surroundings and immerse me in thoughts. Often I dont notice people around me because I'm too busy thinking.

This is one of my habits ever since I got the SA at age 14, instead of talking to people I was always lost in toughts, and my social skills are now greatly damaged as a result of this. Thinking too much made me lost interest in other people and I'm try to get back to talking instead of thinking.

Can anyone recommend any useful ways of breaking this habit?
 

Nie

Well-known member
I feel & think way too much and am lost too..
I can't dismiss negative thoughts easily out of my mind.
I don't really have any recommendations, but maybe I know a little how you feel.
Wish you much energy to break this habit.
 

blight

Well-known member
I would recommend meditation as a way to increase your awareness and your control over your thoughts. I experience this type of feeling too sometimes, even to where I'm not even exactly aware of what I am doing at the moment or have forgotten what I'm doing...usually only rarely after an anxiety-filled situation.

I have a little experience with meditation and it can help direct your thoughts at things. For example, your streams of thoughts afterward would be more focused on one topic or you could look at it from different angles and reflect on it.

I think the main thing is to learn to think at your own pace and I'm not saying I'm the expert here, but once our thoughts are going too fast (as a result of anxiety) we lose the ability to think about things fully. For example in a conversation we may think more thoughts than someone else but spend less time focused on what an appropriate reply to the conversation would be.
 

Reholla

Well-known member
You would think that thinking too much would never be a bad thing. But i can totally relate to you, as im sure everyone else here can. Anxiety is mainly caused by how we think, aka we dwell on things too much.

Some advice i can give (that helps me) is that put that energy into something productive: like, organize closets, clean, do hw, whatever takes your mind off it.

You didnt mention this, but most ppl w/ anxiety think too much about HOW theyre doing the task vs. just doing the task.
I dont even want to THINKabout giving a speech. But a good suggestion of getting over your anxiety of giving speeches in groups is that you focus on the information...focus on WHAT you are talking about vs. HOW you are talking...HOW you look, HOW you feel etc. This can be carried over to day to day functions as well.

Hope the best for you!
 

Dancer

Member
that's some interesting advice Reholla, I'm going to try it out.
I might give meditation a go too :)
 
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