Can't Shut My Brain Off: Anyone Else?

I get this a lot too. What I do is have a couple topics of conversation planned out that I am comfortable with. Then when the voices get too loud or agitated, I "talk" to it in my head as if it is another person. I try to calmly steer the conversation towards my pre-planned topics. The voice never stops, but I can somewhat calm it down a bit and that helps, usually. Then it is a bit more like talking with a friend than arguing with a stranger. I

I think it could be psychosis try and find ways to keep calm like I am finding a bath in the morning and a bath at night is really helpful

Same. It all got worse with my TBI, but with medication, "alternative medicine" (smoking hemp lols), and meditating I'm feeling a lot better. I hope this helps, I'll keep you in my thoughts and send healing energies and good vibes. 💚

Yes my mind and body are amplified

Yeah mine like that all the time. 24/7. I use headphones and figet toys but it's okay but not the best

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Wait I thought I was the only one. Its been driving me crazy for years. How do people quiet the noise

Definitely same! Lithium helped a lot with this.

My brain is like that all the time. Unfortunately to the point of curling up in a ball to just cry. And no one around me understands 😔😔

That’s how I feel today. Hot chocolate helps because it gives me a nice warm feeling in my stomach 😌, writing in my journal and not putting so much pressure on myself to do things is important. Being in a quiet space helps. Coffee is one of the worst things you can have during an time where you feel everything is just going too fast and is overwhelming you. Remember to eat also, it can be easy to do nothing but eating comfort cosy food is important too 😌😌

Antipsychotics help with this. Prayers!

Yes all the time. I habe found talking to myself out loud has help me personally. But other time like when I'm still waking up I just let it do its thing and continue talking to myself and seem to help me.

Yes I understand I worry alot about different things and it's like goes round and round in my head I had too take diazepam too help but now they won't prescribe them too me it's so tiering stay strong mabey try too get up and do something too distract your mind like clean or something x

Yes! Yesterday i went the whole day with no quiet at all because all i could hear was my thoughts. It wasnt until i got in bed to go to sleep and it just went quiet. Only for a bit though.

This sounds like ADHD a bit but can't be sure from just these few sentences. Definitely a common experience for neurodivergent peeps. Hope you find something that works!

Could be depression i was told I had schizophrenia and the pills weren't working same sort of stuff my brain like wouldnt stop overthinking so I went back to doctors they said I had depression undiagnosed me with schizophrenia and now the depression medication so much better

You may have schizophrenia. Seek professional care. Therapist. Better help.

Mine does too. Sometimes it's loudest the second I close my eyes at night. I feel like no one understands why I feel this way sometimes.

Some of my scenarios involve drinking and I can't drink because I take a lot of medication.

I go through the same thing! Have a thought or scenario in my head and somehow sometimes can't get it out no matter what I do. It's frustrating and tiring.

Same! But I've found that imagining a thought that's bothering me, I grab it, crumple it into a ball, & then throw it into the landfill obsis (spelling?). It helps me to get rid of the thoughts that hurt, discourage, or make me depressed.

All the time

It makes me feel more stressed than overwhelmed but yes!

Same here, its constant. Here if you want to talk 🙂

You are definitely not alone! Something my therapist recommended a couple of weeks ago is to write down what the inner voices are saying and then write back. I guess it just kind of helps sort through the cluster in your mind

Yes omg me too. I don’t have any real advice/answers to help but you’re definitely not alone in feeling that way