Racing thoughts and mood stabilisers

[Alannah57]

I’ve been having an emotionally up and down few days and feel great now. I walked for hours to get rid of empty blah feelings and that was really good. I talked out loud a lot to myself while walking. And the small dose of mood stabilisers I’m on have stopped most of my distractibility and racing thoughts. Often before I started taking them I would just get rushy thinking for hours a day. My brain would layer information in a disarrayed way: I’d be half through talking about one thing out loud before I’d switch to another thing, or I’d have a torrent of thoughts on one topic and get excited. I’d be trying to conjure a mental image or idea than switch to something else. Happy racing thoughts 💭 that also were frustrating. I might be cyclothymic? I kind of float on the periphery of out there mood states. But I love being interested in the world. I hope one day all those myth of Sisyphus-y bland feelings never return, and I can just focus and be creative, full of colourful ideas and stories I can apply to a page and read from books and museums, apply attention and energy to a work day every day. Feel energised and non empty for no. Reason. I feel great right now, no the myth of Sisyphus and all those bland catcher in the rye/Albert Camus feelings...

[white knight]

Hi,

I'm on mood stabilizers too. They have helped a lot with my bipolar moods and anxiety, the latter I've largely eliminated.

Apart from regular chats with my GP in regards to dosage I did find that relaxation techniques are really helpful in regard to wandering thoughts.

This is all explained here

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/staying-well/meditation---words-of-wisdom---it-helped-me-for-25-years

There is links there that will help you.

I hope that helps.

TonyWK