Trapped in my thoughts

Is it part of Bipolar to over think things for hours on end? It reaches a point when i'd gladly cut off my own head, to be free of unwanted thoughts & feeling every little ****ing detail

Ummm for me ... I do it damn near ALL the time.. I have some tricks that have made it a bit more tolerable ( learned from my Therapist) .. When possible I remind myself that I need to refocus on something else .. Its about 50/50 as far as working goes ..least its a start..

We BPers are the queens and kings of over-thinking!! I can sit for hours analyzing something to death and never solve anything. I didn't know it wasn't normal until I was diagnosed with the disorder last winter.....thought everybody did that. LOL!!!

Yes in one word. Sometimes it can be a good thing, but like they say.. all things in moderation. It's obviously not good for us to always be over thinking every detail, word, movement, meaning. Sometimes it can help us see things we might have otherwise overlooked, or give us understanding. But often it becomes self destructive.

Thoughts no longer get away from me, though sometimes it is all I can do to keep focused. My constant thinking is one of the highlights of my having Bipolar disorder. Insights, connections and beautiful ideas, what a gift.

thoughts go round and round in my head all of the time

when I am a bit more towards the agitated phase of my disorder, I always have a song in my head, from morning to night. I wake up and it is there. I go to bed and it is there. It drives me crazy.

There are many, many times where I fixate on something for hours or even days. I'm slowly learning how to distract myself from it after the situation has been resolved, or there isn't anything I can do. Its darn hard, though!

Before I was diagnosed, it had never once occurred to me that not everyone's brain runs at warp speed 24/7!! I used to get so exasperated with my kids when I'd ask them what they were thinking and they'd say "nothing"; how can someone not be thinking about something? Even when I don't think I'm thinking, I'm still thinking.......and when I'm manic, the thoughts swirl madly through my head like squirrels in a cage and don't stop even when I sleep (which isn't often during the highs).

I have a problem with curse words swirling in my head. Does anyone have a suggestion to get rid of them?

My mom calls me the queen of what-ifs. I can what-if a situation to death. And I over think everything. My husband yells at me a lot for bringing up stuff at 11pm at night while we're in bed but I can't help it....I'm thinking about it. I have a hard time shutting off.

I am trapped in my thoughts all the time and no door in sight to let them out

When I was a teenager, my dad used to tell me not to put all my problems in the corner and go sit in them.