Brain noise

[delilabell]

Just to explain I suffer with anxiety and am also on the (huge) waiting list for adhd diagnosis.
I've had "brain noise for a long time but it's getting worse. I wake up with a song going through my head but the same few lines over and over. Anything I think my brain says (like a running commentsry) but I assume this is what everyone has? Plus if somethings worrying me my brain repeats something (loudly) over and over so I can have 3 lots of noise in my head at any one time. Does anyone else have this? How do you cope with it?

I have this a lot, but I don’t think I’ve always had it, I think it slowly crept up on me in peri. I wish I could turn it off.

I wish someone had sone ideas

I can't get to sleep for the racket never mind it waking me up

It reassures me that others have it but I'm also so sorry to hear that it affects you both too.
Today I feel completly overwhelmed with it. Its constant in my head and I feel like incant think for all the noise.

Oh wow Im with you on the song, Ive had this for as long as I can remember, its always a different song every morning, sometimes they're songs or tunes I know, sometimes I dontk now them

There are worse intrusive thoughts to have, thats my take on it, so I just accept it

I do get a lot of repetitive brain noise, conversations repeated over and ove,r they normally fizzle out and again I just accept it, I think the more you fight it the worse it gets

Ive found myself saying the same numbers over and over as I walk, like 2 4 6 8 repeatedly with each step, and I have to force myself to stop.
Yes to waking up In the night with a song in my head, I have to stop myself singing to the end.
Yes to waking in the night and having conversations/arguments with people that will never actually take place. Plus having flashbacks of embarrassing things I did or said 30/40 years ago. It’s exhausting, but seems worse when I’m anxious.
And I’ve had an increase in what I call negative thoughts, such as has my DS made it home to his Uni accommodation safely tonight, then I have to touch wood to get rid of it.

I usually have a commentary in my head. Listening to podcasts stops it.

The counting thing yes! And the organising arguments for things that will never happen.