Is having several thoughts at the same time a symptom? - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

Strawberry.hill · 07-10-2006, 07:24 PM

Now that I am doing better, I realized I've done this befroe. I sometimes have several threads of thought running through my head at the same time.
If someone is speaking to me about work for example, my mind is there, I do listen, but at the same time I am thinking about what I just watched on the news "I should tell my husband about that thing on the news about the baby born in Wal Mart", then at the same time, "I need to e-mail my friend about that isssue to to with children". Meanwhile my husband is explaining something about work, "did I speak to that person?" I would answer "no I did not, hey can you sign me up for that class?, I need to take the class so I can speak to the victims a little better, more interview skills, you know?"
"Talking about interviews,..."
SO there it is, how do 2 or 3 different conversations happen in my head at the same time, no wonder I speak so fast? I'm trying to catch up with the thoughts.
Help?
They also happen at the most wrong moments!! When I have a little "alone time" with my husband" I have this too, Bad girl!! I can't help it.

Strawberry.hill · 07-10-2006, 07:43 PM

Sorry, had to cut that one short.
I have been like this for a long time. They are not necessarily fast or disturbing. They just are there.
When I watch a movie, I settle a little, but if it's TV, I get distracted right away. I keep gettting up or I start writing a letter, or worse, start eating something.

There is a good side, I can keep up with several things at once when my mind is clear. Right now, I can keep track of posts here, I have been typing a journal (for the radio at work. dispatch?) , processing paperwork, and answering the radio all at once. Oh, and checking e-mail once in a while.
Is this part of Bipolar, or am I just too preoccupied with things?

I try to relax on my time off, but I keep going and going. Not too bad out here, I try to rest. But my husband likes to just be still for a while, and it drives me nuts, I keep thinking that because he is quiet, something is wrong. I keep asking what is wrong, until I sometimes get on his nerves. he is polite and just explains that he is just reading something, and resting, he doesn't see the need to talk constanty. Why can't I do that? Just exist.

MillaRose · 07-10-2006, 08:13 PM

Hi.
This might sound strange but when my thoughts would get like that and my mind would race i also found my eyes would blink more than usual. Also accompanying this would be the inability to finish a yawn or even a sneeze. ?? Does this happen to you to. Curious

GatsbyLuvr1920 · 07-10-2006, 08:15 PM

Well, racing thoughts and fast-paced speech are classic signs of (hypo)mania. Maybe it's just an inherent part of your personality? Anyway, about the "asking what's wrong" thing- I do that ALL the time! I can sense minute changes in peoples' mood and/or tone of voice, so when they're quiet or say something to me in a kind of "off" tone, I automatically assume that either they're mad at me or that they're in a mood/something's wrong...

-GatsbyLuvr1920-

Strawberry.hill · 07-10-2006, 08:24 PM

MillaRose; the yawning thing, yes, but it was wierd, the Lexapro was causing it. I felt like I kept yawning over and over, and it felt like they would not end. SOmetimes I would almost gag, and felt really wierd.
Gatsby: I read a post you put up earlier, my, you have so much info. and all this time I thought you were older than me, you sound wiser than my age. Thanks for that other post. ANd the part where I bug my husband, I guess I should try to leave him alone, sometimes he may need to just exist.
Maybe I can try asking him how I can do that, I may learn to realx for once. If he doesn't think I really lost my marbles this time!

Yeah, I don't know why I automatically assume that he's mad at me. I keep asking what I did. He says nothing once, then twice, then after a few time, he just gets irritable, then I say "see, I knew you were mad", then I catch mysef. I realize I caused it in the first place by asking.
Funny now.
Strawberry