- Date posted
- 26w
Thoughts come up faster than i can sit with?
I just wanted to see if anyone else experienced anything like this, or maybe could help explain what’s going on? It feels like the intrusive thoughts completely take on a life of their own. For example, earlier today i was sitting with a pretty big theme, accepting the uncertainty, telling myself, “Maybe this happened, maybe it didn’t. I don’t know.” Then, 15 minutes where i was alone with my thoughts, and it was like my brain just took off running. Ruminating, and when I tried to pull back and not ruminate, it would just go right back to ruminating. Other thoughts were coming up. What-ifs, false memories, rumination, new thoughts. It almost felt like it was faster than I could even react. The theme i was dealing with is gone now, having been “figured out” as a false memory - which i kind of knew, but was still trying to sit with the uncertainty - and another huge theme related to it and directly as a result of whatever this was has taken it’s place, and it’s left me absolutely exhausted and just feeling so depressed and hopeless, and hating myself and hating being me. And this is how it’s been - I deal with one theme, a new one appears within the hour, and if i step away from my phone or laptop for even just five minutes, the thoughts are relentless. I’m not sure if it’s because i have so much free time, being unemployed and having graduated college? Or if it has anything to do with the ADHD i strongly suspect i have? Is this just extreme OCD? Has anyone else ever experienced this? What did you do to handle it?