This so-called "mind chatter", or racing thoughts/obsessions, is a very common symptom, especially in those of us who have a more severe case of anxiety disorders. My mind never stops. It's gotten better now that I'm on the mood stabilizer Lamictal, which works for racing thoughts and flight of ideas in bipolar mania, but I still have a hard time keeping up with the rapid pace my brain spits out thoughts. Even on days where I have relatively low anxiety and few things to worry about I still can't slow down and stop planning. My "mind chatter" takes place in three different forms: simply having to plan out everything to make sure that my schedule works, an amalgam of school facts when I've studied all night for a test and have to memorize a bunch of material or, on a normal day, hearing TV/movie quotes over and over in my head, and, the worst, blasphemous and mean-spirited obsessions from my OCD. The strange thing is that I just realized that my three different categories all correspond to a different one of my anxiety problems: the first is an example of my Generalized Anxiety Disorder, the second is my Asperger's, and the third is, obviously, my OCD. I've never noticed that before, but it certainly is interesting...
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