[Macha84]

Hello sorry if I'm not placing this in the right area.the interweb is confusing ��however, this is a question that i seek advice on and hope others may benefit from the topic. So as the title states I have been constantly bugged by involuntarily repeating and rehashing different conversative scenarios without an outcome after an importan I.e. (job interview) or unimportant(random conversation). I could think on it so much as to how it could have gone better ( whilst if I'm alone) talking out loud to them as to what I should have said and so fourth. When I am not able to talk out loud (when others are around) I have to start counting or singing a chorus over in my head to get rid of the wretched feeling. (Until I can focus again that is). I know replaying a past scenario sometimes can be benificial however for myself it has not been. I am not diagnosed with a disorder that privies me talking to myself so does anyone else do something similar or if not am I coo coo for Cocoa Puffs?n what can I do. It kinda ruins my professiona relationships.

[lacerta]

I'm also trapped into past conversations. CBT has helped me enormously to settle down those thoughts, with thought diaries and other ways of writing them down. I'm not 100% cured, but I have gone from point where I have overwhelming noise of thoughts constantly running in my head to a point when I have many thoughts at once only when I'm stressed out and it takes less and less effort and shorter times to calm them down.

Guilty.My psychiatrist has suggested this is but one of my obsessive behaviors. An anit obsessant has helped a great deal.

[Lost_in_the_woods]

I do this ALOT! It's that awful stuck on stupid feeling...otherwise known as Rumination. Rumination is on the long list of cognitive distortions.Many MH issues suffer from this merry-go-round, wish I has done that differently kinda thought process. Even those not dxd w/ a MI are proven to this from time to time...it's just another one of those ways our minds find to beat us up. ...
As far as the having conversations w/ self outloud...also something that everyone does on occasion. For myself, I have a tendency to do this alot. I dissociative either completely or just get lost in my thoughts and find that I talk / think/ argue etc w/myself outloud. Alone or in public also even when somewhat aware...I will find myself doing this....at the mild end, I might just be mouthing words or almost inaudibly mumbling
.but it usually also includes hand gestures ...
I get really embarrassed by the uncomfortable looks I get from other ppl when I do this, but more and more I find I can not stop it until whatever is going on upstairs plays out in full! I used to explain it as don't worry or feel rude walking away if I'm rambling bc it's probably not anything important I an trying to say to you...it's just that if I start a thought out loud I have to finish it out loud or else it will be stuck floating around in my head all day. Now mostly I think it is still like that, but now it gets worse when it happens in public..cuz, when I am startled and embarrassed by others noticing...then, it changes completely into a two way conversation btwn myself and another part of myself berating and defending and arguing..stop doing that!..ppl are looking at you like your crazy!! Just keep your mouth shut!! STOP.NOW.....otherside.. I know. You don't need to tell me! I know I m crazy! I'm trying to stop. Stop talking to me and I'll stop responding! Etc....

[avlady]

Wow that explains a lot for me too. sentences and phrases round and in my head. i am on meds for schitzoprenia and bipolar which does helps alot i just wish it would go away.

[Ladypunk]

I feel you. I'm also constantly rerunning past conversations in my mind trying to find out what could i have said differently. It also comes with intense shame because i feel stupid about things i said. I allways feel like I talk stupid or nonsensical. I know it's not healthy because i don't make any productive changes about it, i just dwell on past conversations, and feeling shame "what people think about me". Though, like you, i still can't stop doing this.

[twilliamsjr79]

Believe it or not replaying, verbly acting out past convos and situtations is completely normal.

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[twilliamsjr79]

I actually did alot of researcbing and talked to a few T's about it.

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