Turning off thoughts

[David McGuire]

Does anyone else get skipping thoughts? What I mean is sometimes, usually when stressed, my brain will "catch" on a thought. It will then repeat the thought until it's finished. example, I am making coffee in the morning. I notice I need coffee beans. So I get dressed to go out and get some coffee from the store. I need my wallet, I don't know where my wallet is. I don't know where my wallet is, I don't know where my wallet is, I don't know where my wallet is.

My brain stops analyzing and just keeps asking. Problem solving doesnt become and option. I just skip in the same question. My heart rate goes up, I panic. I can't stop the thought.

Anyone else experience this?

[julia]

i know what ur talking about but mine seem to catch n stay stuck in the trapdoors of the paranoia of what my bf is doing- its like a revolving door-im alwys so sure hes cheating or doing something wrong- tg im pretty n hes not the brightest bulb- after 7 yrs he still hasnt caught on to why imlike that- he thinks i got pretty girl bitchy complex- he knows about the injury from 15yrs ago he just doesnt know about its side effects

[Chris Mateo]

when you figure it out can you email me so I know how to turn it off, it just won't stop sometimes

[Edward]

its finding that switch, in the dark

[David McGuire]

I have tested something out and it seems to be working, well sort of. I am now pushing myself as hard as I can physically. What I mean is that I am waking up at 5:30 am and I am running for up to 3 hours right now. Now I like running and my brain injury affected me cognitivaly not as much physically. Beyond the headaches and the one side of my right foot that I can't feel. I find I can loose myself by pushing myself to my physicall limits. I have no idea how appealing that idea is, and it took alot to get me her. I am just saying that find out what workout you like, swimming, biking, anything that gets the heart rate up and test how far you can go. To me it's more effective than pills, books I bought on dealing with brain injury, or tricks my speech pathology. I also find playing some games like sudoko helps. It works the brain out a little bit. Just try everything, what works for you won't work for me. It's you brain. I find I am at worse when I stop trying new things. I fail at the fast majority,and I always try more. But when I get depressed at always failing I sometimes stop trying to find some new way to work out my brain.

[Geo Gosling]

Send me some jam! I love peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

[Inez]

For me it's something like I'll try to remember something like pick up jam at the grocery store and then that idea get's stuck in my head until I gone everyday for weeks and the house is Jam Packed!

[David McGuire]

Hey Justin.

I learned something in Psychology a while ago that stuck with me. We keep really bad memories in our head and we get rid of most memories because the really bad ones are added to our flight and flight response in the brain. The reason we keep them is so that we never repeat them. So while annoying, honting, and disturbing, they surve a point of making sure we don't forget so we don't repeat it. So that we are better. We may do some bad things, the real issue is whether or not we repeat it.

 

I understand about fading support. Have you found a brain injury support group? I say that but I don't often go them myself. I don't know why. I prefer online and places like this.

[Justin]

for me its more about turning off memories of past things, they are morbid and disturbing and keep me up all night, it is my quest to be at peace with my past so they don't haunt my present sending me into panic if has been a mess for me and my supports have all but faded away

[David McGuire]

Hey Joan,  Had lot's of those weeks. Lot's and lots. They do get fewer and farther between, but also seem to increase in there resonance. All I can say is that it does end, it does get better, keep talking and keep moving. I am at my worst when I just wallow, it comes to easy, the wallowing. I have to fight sometimes so hard, just to move. Just keep moving, keep going, the storm does end. I promise

[Joan M]

saw this blog here, I have seen it before but this has been one of those weeks everything is now just a blur, one of those weeks where they caused drama and stress in my life, I wish I could take so many of them away or at least how i reacted but I can only move forward but i cant stop the thoughts or maybe its guilt... but it is now causing headaches be great if we had an off botton