[SurrogateUsername]

I'd like some clarification / insight into a symptom I frequently experience.

I want to say I experience "racing thoughts" but it feels more like "racing brain." When I read descriptions of racing thoughts, I read about people experiencing 1000 different thoughts fly in and out of their mind. Pieces of songs, memories, ideas, just whizzing past out of their control.

What I experience is similar in a way, but it's not quite that based on the above description. Rather it feels like my mind / brain becomes a strong current, and any thought I have is at once swept away. Like my rain is just rushing but I can have this feeling without thinking much of anything.

I was feeling down last night, which then transitioned into feelings of depression, irritability, this "racing brain" feeling, laughter, and a heightened sense of touch. I felt like I was drunk or on drugs and had trouble keeping balance.

Today I've just got the agitation and racing brain. So I come to you to ask about that symptom in particular.

Thank you very much.

Background: I was diagnosed as having Bipolar II a few years ago but I ended treatment and have since questioned the diagnosis because my symptoms feel atypical.

[wiretwister]

I can't describe it but the racing thoughts scare me when they start, drove me back on meds last time..

[cashart10]

I would honestly recommend getting back to a pdoc and checking with him/her about this, especially since you have other symptoms. I personally have never experienced racing thoughts as you describe them, mine are more typical, and my mind gets really revved up and I have a flight of ideas. However, despite the difference, that could likely be what you are experiencing.

My racing thoughts are different to what you describe too. There is probably a better term to use.

[Manic Trance]

Sounds like racing thoughts.

To me the main thing is that you can't or you struggle to turn them off and that they move at a clip. Also, cyclical thoughts are common. If that is all there, sounds like you've got racing thoughts.

Originally Posted by SurrogateUsername

I'd like some clarification / insight into a symptom I frequently experience.

I want to say I experience "racing thoughts" but it feels more like "racing brain." When I read descriptions of racing thoughts, I read about people experiencing 1000 different thoughts fly in and out of their mind. Pieces of songs, memories, ideas, just whizzing past out of their control.

What I experience is similar in a way, but it's not quite that based on the above description. Rather it feels like my mind / brain becomes a strong current, and any thought I have is at once swept away. Like my rain is just rushing but I can have this feeling without thinking much of anything.

I was feeling down last night, which then transitioned into feelings of depression, irritability, this "racing brain" feeling, laughter, and a heightened sense of touch. I felt like I was drunk or on drugs and had trouble keeping balance.

Today I've just got the agitation and racing brain. So I come to you to ask about that symptom in particular.

Thank you very much.

Background: I was diagnosed as having Bipolar II a few years ago but I ended treatment and have since questioned the diagnosis because my symptoms feel atypical.

[Tucson]

Doesn't sound like how I have experienced racing thoughts. But like a poster here has said, it may still qualify as such. I also would recommend a meeting with a pdoc.

[Justugh]

that sounds like u could not hold a thought

i exped that but it is a really bad thing for me ........you shut down ,u go numb, feel nothing, care about nothing ....u just be

if so u need to talk to a Pdoc about that and anytime u feel that lock yourself down ...handcuff yourself to something that is not going to move tell someone so they can tie your *** down

go see the doctor and tell them ...........in that state something very very very very bad can happen like u hurting someone u care about

effectively u lose control of your body u are running on instinct ........depending where u are who u are around this can turn very bad ........the part that restrains u from acting out on impulses is shut down your higher thinking and ability to say no no no bad idea is gone sinnce u can not run a action out to logical ending .......i have had this happen a few times i learned

if this is what u are feeling then u need to talk to a doctor and start pills otherwise it is more then likely a event will be triggered at the wrong time and rest of your life plans change

sorry to make it sound scarey but my exp with it is very very bad

[faerie_moon_x]

Racing thoughts is one of my primary symptoms. For me they actually never stop. It's just an endless flood of noise. Like you said, songs and memories and bits of movies or joke etc.

But, I can say the vanishing thoughts are part of it. It's part of the reason I struggle with my writing. I want to work on my novels but my ideas fly in and out of my head so fast it's hard to piece them together into coherent structures. When my mind goes slow enough to write it's like finding an oasis.

Also I have looping racing thoughts. Like a song stuck in your head. It could be a song, a bad memory, a thing I want to say to someone, something that happened to me and so on. The looping racing thoughts take up my whole focus and go around and around endlessly. I've had single thoughts that last for months. It makes it really hard to do anything or get work done or remember or think about anything else.