Can't stop thinking

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You ever want to blow your brains out because you just can't stop thinking?

It just feels like there's always a flurry of "potential future scenarios" racing around my head, always screaming at me what might happen, delving into scenarios that i'd like to happen, and trying to figure what'd turn negative scenarios in my favor.

I can't not think. There's too much running through my head. Every moment of solitude I find is constantly bombarded with what might be the future, and of what I ought to have done in my past.

It makes me want to just hold a gun to my temple, just to make the thinking end. There's no amount of drugs or sober distractions that can make me just lay in peace, and exist without thought.
 
Didn't know people from that epicly awesome island had such problems.
 
Didn't know people from that epicly awesome island had such problems.

I'd hardly consider it a TRUE problem, more like an irritant.

I just find it impossible to lay down and enjoy being alive. There's always some scenario my mind wants to play out in my head.
 
lol, maybe if you told a bit bout your situation and yourself (age, work, life, house etc.) I and other ppl can help? I know most ppl know about you, but yeah, you get the point
 
lol, maybe if you told a bit bout your situation and yourself (age, work, life, house etc.) I and other ppl can help? I know most ppl know about you, but yeah, you get the point

Well, while it is directly proportional to the amount of shit currently populating my plate, I don't think it's anything in particular that's bugging me atm.

I just think to much about things. And you can imagine that when there's more happening, there's more for me to "have to think about".

If that makes any sense.

If i've got a test coming up, I have a hard time not thinking about what may or may not happen during the test, or what I should or shouldn't have done the week prior in regards to studying.

If there's a girl on my mind, I have a hard time not thinking about how I ought to go about getting things going with her, or how a potential relationship might end, and whether such ends are worth the relationship itself.

If there's something big I need to tell somebody in the coming day, I find it impossible to NOT think about what he might think of what I tell him. What tone of voice I ought to use. Whether what i'm about to say may end in a fight.

Make any sense?

I just think too much about things, and it makes it hard to actually do them.
 
Wait, aren't all people like this? Then, I have the same problem. My only advice is to try to reduce the amount of stuff you're doing. Tackling too many goals at once can have such results. Try to focus on one thing at a time.
 
I want to blow my brains out constantly. But that less because of thinking and more just a general psychological issue.
 
You ever want to blow your brains out because you just can't stop thinking?

It just feels like there's always a flurry of "potential future scenarios" racing around my head, always screaming at me what might happen, delving into scenarios that i'd like to happen, and trying to figure what'd turn negative scenarios in my favor.
Welcome to sentience.

Your new life as a HUMAN BEING WITH A THINKING BRAIN will be full of thought and imagination.

May the force be with you.
 
Everyone's like you bru. It takes me a whole night to fall asleep sometimes just because im thinking of stuff to do the next day, the whole 'if only i had done that instead' fantasies to make you feel better etc etc etc.

Youre just the kind of person that doesnt see 'x' (like a relationship), you see the whole alphabet like how to start one, what to do, how to make it last, what to say etc etc etc. You just break stuff down too much and need to simplify things i guess.

Try meditation - where you focus all your attention on your breathing whilst trying to sleep for example. And if your mind wanders away, mentally slap yourself and tell yourself to stop thinking and focus.

Works for me anyway...
 
Happens fairly often for me. My brain simply cannot go idle. I must always be occupied with something. If I'm kept waiting more than thirty seconds, I become desperate for stimulation and start reading anything that I can on posted on walls, drumming with my hands and feet, rocking back and forth, etc.. It probably comes off as being extremely infantile, and I guess it is. I don't have a problem with actually getting to sleep due to excess brain activity, but I think I trained myself when I was young to focus entirely on the process of sleep when it is necessary to do so.

It's the same with me, only until recently I had trouble with sleeping whereas you don't.
 
You're stressed. This is how your body manages it.

Go for a walk/jog, go to the gym.

Don't focus on controlling, or even thinking about the future. Whatever happens in the future is directly influenced by what your'e doing now. If you continue being stressed out, thinking of what MAY happen, things will either stay the same or become worse, not better.

Only think about the future when setting future goals, and then establish how you're gonna reach those goals by doing something in the present. Your mind should always be in the present, solving problems. Whatever you make of the present will become your future.

If you just CAN'T stop thinking of future scenarios, just focus on the positive scenarios. When you're awake, look into how you can come closer to such scenarios, in every possible and significant way. If you focus on the negative ones, focus on WHY they may happen (causes) and identify how you can avoid or conquer these causes.
 
I have this exact problem, though it's only when I go to bed.
 
I get that when I'm reading something boring (ie. uni stuff). My mind drifts away and I start thinking about various stuff, scenarios, future etc.
 
I know the feeling but I don't get it very often, mostly when I'm trying to sleep and I have a lot of stuff going on.
 
To the point where I want to shit my brains out. That's got be worse than blowing it out right?
 
Go to sleep is probably the best advice to anyone suffering the aforementioned mental affliction.
 
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