Is my excessive thinking normal?

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I want to know if this will ever change..or this is who I am...about a year and a half ago...i started to think so much..i would think so much that i would have to write all of my thoughts down..i would think about the most random things and find them to be absolutely amazing..the global economic system,socio-economics ..the world..a specific example, how the shower in my dorm was made..and how it was made for thousands of kids and how i happened to be one of those thousands of kids..., how the tiles and pipes were laid and routed. about time about never ending things..when i sit down to dinner, one look at my mom and i think about her childhood, i think about when she was my age and if she thought she was pretty, i think about other people and their self-esteem..i wonder so much about everything its kinda scary...it takes up so much of my brain power and almost constantly, i guess i'm always thinking about my experience, my past and my future and who that makes me in relation to everyone else...but too much! unless im involved with some other intense activity, like soccer, and even then, i'll have breaks where i think about the whats going on in my opponents head, or his childhood, or my own experience in the game, i'll remember 4th grade soccer matches.. i'm 20 now and that was 11 years ago. am i a freaking weirdo? will i grow out of this? should i even try to make it stop? i don't know, i guess i just wanna know if i'm normal....i'd like to experience life with a clear head

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  • boringReality
    14 years ago

    i just gain some sort of interesting insight from your post because I myself use to think so much to the point of where i feel annoyed that i do so much thinking that i feel like i live in my head. U should project those thoughts in the career field of film, art, writing (so u get some $for what ur natural at) & share what u see. You never know what ppl can get out of your vision. Anyways, I actually dont think as much as before, but lately I been feel shallow & impatient like there is no tomorrow. I feel like I lost a piece of my personality when I dont ponder about things as much as I use to. I felt like when I did so, it seem like I appreciated life. Well, ill post more update on my thoughts & while at the mean time enjoy my life with meaning or nonsense. Coz life to me feels like it has no direction, but you have control where to direct ur attention to. ill holla at u later.

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    • zoomjoo
      13 years ago

      Yeah, i think its been about a year since i posted this, and i'm starting to feel similarly. Its like ive accepted all those weird thoughts and facts and put them in the back of my mind. its enabled me to be more proactive and decisive, but at the same time i feel slightly cynical, impatient and sometimes depressed. I think a little meditation might help me. I feel from our descriptions that our experiences are similar. If you don't mind me asking, how do you channel your energy (work/recreation/etc)

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  • ChelseaSailor
    13 years ago

    Isn't that why we have a brain? Embrace it.

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  • proniss
    13 years ago

    Idk if it's normal but until I read this I didn't think a lot of people did that cuz I think a hole lot too, it's people like us who make good philosophers. But unlike you I enjoy all this thinking so idk

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  • WKUKisgod
    14 years ago

    i know how it feels. It sometimes feels like i have literally thought about everything. Someone asked me one time if i ever got bored being inside my own head. But yeah anyways when i think i like to put myself in someone elses shoes and just think about the reasons why they act the way they do do the things they do, how different stimulus feels to them just the most ridiculous things. I think if i didnt think so much i might be more social/more well liked.

    Also something interesting i think it may be more of a daydreaming thing, i get bored with life and people so its pretty much to entertain myself. Anyways daydreaming is actually really good for your brain, it uses and exercises the problem solving part of your brain.

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    • zoomjoo
      14 years ago

      good to know! yeah i was just thinking about it today...i guess i just get locked up..i have my own perception of things and i assume everyone perceives the same way i do but it couldn't be farther from the truth! I feel happy being an introvert. even though i seem standoffish and cold, i can get warm with a few people which is enough for me, and they know better as to who i am. i guess that's what true friends are. i have no acquaintances and very very few friends if any that know me.

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  • Hansberger
    13 years ago

    I did excessive thinking once and my mind told me to shut up. Go to sleep or shut out. There's the solution

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  • stzzla
    13 years ago

    When you grow up, I think your going to be the Emporer in Star Wars.

    If you think thats bad, dont worry. My destiny is to become Rumple Stiltskin from that childrens story. Can you think of anything more embarassing than having the christian name Rumple? I'm never going to survive my school years. My destiny is to get bullied to death. At least you get to taste some power before you buy the farm. Think about me...me with.....Rumple on my birth certificate. Oh god the shame.

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  • TennisAce17
    14 years ago

    I do the same thing, the brain is an amazing thing isnt it? I mean to think that i dont know how but im thinking what im thinking now and somehow my brain is sending impulses to my fingers to tell them to type what im typing now. I better stop now before i give myself another headache over this. STrange i admit but i do it to, once again its a gift i think that most people dont have, be glad you have it.

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  • uncreative89
    14 years ago

    maybe a touch of ADD as well

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  • FrozenForever
    14 years ago

    It sounds to me like you're really smart. Maybe you have OCD too. I know what you mean, sometimes I just can't stop thinking, and I feel all weird. I think you should start writing these down, and when you focus on writing them you'll get out of your head. And at the same time, you'll be doing something productive with the thoughts. Who knows, maybe you'll become a big deal with writing!

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