Comments on: The Two Forms Of Racing Brain Syndrome – Part I http://awanderingmind.com/2009/08/12/the-two-forms-of-racing-brain-syndrome-part-i/ How I deal with all the clutter in my head... and other geeky goodness Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:04:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: NORM http://awanderingmind.com/2009/08/12/the-two-forms-of-racing-brain-syndrome-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-308 NORM Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:47:33 +0000 http://awanderingmind.com/?p=216#comment-308 Has anyone had the following; I fall asleep just fine around 9:00PM. At precisely 3:15AM every morning I wake up with racing mind which is a result from a dream. I spend the next 3 hours trying to solve the situation in the dream, even though I know it is just a dream, but my mind won't stop. I give up and get up. Go have a cup of coffee and the racing mind is gone and I am wide awake. If I drink ANY beer, the racing mind turns into thoughts of dread and depression, with all the same characturistics as above. I tried amiltriptoline which made me sleep, but when I woke I was more tired than when I went to bed. Any advice here would be great...especially because I am a home brewer and this is really messing with my passion! Has anyone had the following;
I fall asleep just fine around 9:00PM.
At precisely 3:15AM every morning I wake up with racing mind which is a result from a dream. I spend the next 3 hours trying to solve the situation in the dream, even though I know it is just a dream, but my mind won’t stop.
I give up and get up. Go have a cup of coffee and the racing mind is gone and I am wide awake.
If I drink ANY beer, the racing mind turns into thoughts of dread and depression, with all the same characturistics as above.
I tried amiltriptoline which made me sleep, but when I woke I was more tired than when I went to bed.
Any advice here would be great…especially because I am a home brewer and this is really messing with my passion!

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]]> By: Shaun Bloom http://awanderingmind.com/2009/08/12/the-two-forms-of-racing-brain-syndrome-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Shaun Bloom Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:48:18 +0000 http://awanderingmind.com/?p=216#comment-268 I must say that you sure make out RBS to be such a MILD form of "too much to do" forming racing thoughts at bed time, or just plane old, I'm so excited i can't think straight. For me it is much more severe than either of these, and I must say not caused by either! For me RBS is as follows. Ideas and thoughts coming at such a rapid pace that i am literally unable to focus or collect a thought, rendering me almost useless when it comes to organizing my day, task, normal daily things that most people do instinctually. Me, I forget to eat, brush my teeth, open mail, take care of my yard and house, let alone trying to hold down a job as a web developer. My brain feels like a a google database for everything I have ever seen, heard, dreamt, felt, talked about from as early as age 2. When people talk, my brain goes into super search mode looking for any related content that would match in some way shape or form to what they are talking about. I have felt the racing brain since 91', but was only able to finally get it all figured out this year once my BP medications were finally corrected and had been in my system for almost 2 years. As the BP medications got more and more into my system the RBS got increasingly worse. It has been a crazy life with all of this, but I must admit it makes life a canvas for ideas, visions, and dreams. Thoughts are endless and ideas are priceless! I am currently working on the site http://www.racingbrain.com to try and compile all of the information I can find and house it in one place. Please note that the severity of my RBS is light years past what you talk about here, can therefore I find it a little to mild to categorize as really being RBS. My Two Cents Shaun Bloom http://www.thebestdayofmylife.net I must say that you sure make out RBS to be such a MILD form of “too much to do” forming racing thoughts at bed time, or just plane old, I’m so excited i can’t think straight. For me it is much more severe than either of these, and I must say not caused by either!

For me RBS is as follows. Ideas and thoughts coming at such a rapid pace that i am literally unable to focus or collect a thought, rendering me almost useless when it comes to organizing my day, task, normal daily things that most people do instinctually.

Me, I forget to eat, brush my teeth, open mail, take care of my yard and house, let alone trying to hold down a job as a web developer. My brain feels like a a google database for everything I have ever seen, heard, dreamt, felt, talked about from as early as age 2. When people talk, my brain goes into super search mode looking for any related content that would match in some way shape or form to what they are talking about.

I have felt the racing brain since 91′, but was only able to finally get it all figured out this year once my BP medications were finally corrected and had been in my system for almost 2 years. As the BP medications got more and more into my system the RBS got increasingly worse. It has been a crazy life with all of this, but I must admit it makes life a canvas for ideas, visions, and dreams. Thoughts are endless and ideas are priceless!

I am currently working on the site http://www.racingbrain.com to try and compile all of the information I can find and house it in one place.

Please note that the severity of my RBS is light years past what you talk about here, can therefore I find it a little to mild to categorize as really being RBS.

My Two Cents

Shaun Bloom

http://www.thebestdayofmylife.net

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