Posted by 4WD on September 5, 2004, at 21:34:26
In reply to Maximus(OrAnybody)-Racing thoughts-bedtime, posted by becksA on September 5, 2004, at 18:58:12
> In regards to your last post, Maximus, about racing thoughts at bedtimne being something else, They are not all bad, i just can't stop thinking about things, good OR bad, one after another, as soon as my head hits the pillow, my mind is wide awake, thinking of so many thoughts they often don't finish, and overlap one another...over the years i've kind of trained my myself to focus on a calming thought....my favorite is a "marshmellow world" hehe, where everything looks pretty much just like one giant white sheet with light outlines...just calming. my mind really becomes like a movie screen when i try and go to sleep. it's only recently where it seems a bit more intense, past couple years. thoughts? i've always thought it to be my adhd.
Yep, know what you mean. I don't know what causes it - it was worse for me on Prozac and better on Effexor. What I do now is concentrate on some specific thing, very non -emotional thing, like trying to make a mental list of each food I ate that day. Not just "salad" but lettuce, carrot, cucumber, whatever. It's like a sort of meditation, makes my mind stop jumping around. Deep breathing/ counting is supposed to help also.
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