For me it’s thoughts tangled with anxiety. I think of things that were, things that happened. Things that might happen. Fictional conversations based on these hypothetical situations I come up with. Thoughts bouncing around that make my brain hurt.

And then all of those thoughts splintering off into their own tangle. Trying to stop just leads me down a different path with many more thought roads. I’ve gone through this in the past week. Things have calmed down the past couple of days.

Have you ever seen the experiment where there are hundreds of mouse traps set up and each has a ping pong ball on it? All it takes is someone to drop one more ball in and they all start firing with no pattern, rhyme or reason. That’s as close to a visual description I can think of.