Restless mind

[Etzelaire]

Maybe one week a month or something like that I feel more tired than normal. It's like I desperately need a power switch to disconnect my brain. Sometimes it feels really hard to remain calm when you have tons of information entering in your brain and you cannot tell the world to shut up one second and let you rest for just a second! In these occasions I always think of how the ignorant and less caring people would be feeling like. Does anyone else feel like the everyday information is overwhelming ?

 

[Judge]

Very much so on a regular basis when I go to bed and wake up before I should. A flood of information flows through my head at a time when I really don't want to hear any of it. Yet I also find it difficult to "turn off" once it starts.

 

[Kari Suttle]

Sometimes i think my mind is always going. Most nights i lay in bed for what seems like ages - an hour will pass, easily - before i go to sleep even if i'm tired. God forbid i wake up halfway through the night cause i have to go to the bathroom - the moment i get up, my mind is active. Thinking about what i'll do the next morning, how i'll cope with any given specific issue, etc. And once more, its another hour before i'm asleep again.

Most of the time everyday things are fine for me, unless i'm unusually stressed or sleep deprived and then everything is too much to deal with. A malfunctioning or slow laptop, the dishwasher or washer/dryer running loudly, something particularly noisy or annoying that the toddler i babysit full time is playing with. Simple things like that will get to me and overwhelm me.

 

[The Penguin]

It has been very hard to have my mind rest since I lost my job last year. People say to network with people to get work, I meet tons of people and all the time it reaches to dead ends. As my unemployment is coming near to the end under lots of stress to find any work I can get. I always had trouble getting traditional work so my work most of the time being with temp agencies. The risk with temp agencies work can end at any time. I get a job, my mind at ease. Lose the job, my mind is not at rest. This pattern keeps repeating. It's very scary not know when I will have a stable job. My mind is also not at rest for a business program I want to take. Wait endless weeks for information while do ****** work. Of not knowing what my future can be, I keep being reminded I only have 5 weeks of unemployment left. Part of these jobs I have been 12 hour shifts and one week I did 60 hrs. With all of these events going on, I rarely ever have time to rest.

 

[The Penguin]

Chilly, come down to Australia- we have open ended Dole (you can stay on until retirement age) and we have 700 000 people (out of 23 000 000) doing just that!

If you pay for my plane ticket.

 

[Axeman52]

This happens to me quite regularly, especially at night where I can't stop worrying about everyday things or the more i drift off to sleep, imaginary things, sometimes I go through phases where it gets so bad that it really really affects the quality of my sleep and I get a lot of migraines as a result. I'm going through one of those phases now. I just have no energy during the day and can hardly concentrate on anything, because I'm just so tired and so much more sensitive to everything that's going on around me and much more easily distracted.

 

[watersprite]

Everyday information is overwhelming sometimes. If some sort of a change has happened or I am preparing for a change, it's worse. I wake up at night or very early in the morning, even though I very much want to be sleeping, to rest & stop thinking. I have some techniques to help me get back to sleep but they don't always work.

 

[Jimbo]

The wheels in my brain are always turning non stop. My wife has to reel me back in to the world sometimes.

Having a smartphone bombing me with articles and information nonstop doesn't help either. I have considered going back to my old flip phone for this reason. I am thinking of deleting all the pages I have liked on Facebook over the years so that all I see are posts from friends instead of tons of articles that catch my attention and waste half my day and fry my brain in the process.