internal analyis/ obsessive thinking

[lensbuddy]

Im not sure f im depressed, anxious or get panic attacks, but what i do know is that my thought patterns are very internal, ie, i analyise everything. My thinking seems to be going around and around like a stuck record. I wouldn't call my thoughts negative even or particularly bad, just weird and strange, as if i am somehow not connected to my world aound me. On the whole i love life, i dont feel down so much just as freaked out by my thoughts of detachment from my surroundings. It's difficult to put into words, and i know others must have similar feelings and thoughts, but sometimes i wonder about the meaning of life. I hear people talking about everyday stuff, there jobs, girlfriends etc, and i can take it all in and respond as normal but a large part of me is somehow analyising the information, trying to make sense of it when i know that there is no sense to be made of it. Its just life. I have in the passed had severe anxiety attacks in the past as a result of not being able to answer these questions in my head and i have been taking Citalopram for about 3 months now with some good results, but my obsessive thinking is never very far away. I would just like to know why my brain is thinking like this. Because I know there has to be a reason.

[TheDave]

Have you ever been tested for ADHD?

[lensbuddy]

Hi. I havent been tested for ADHD. In fact i dont even know what that is?

[Malicious]

I have a similar problem, odd thoughts within an interesting perspective, irrelevant to my surroundings, in an overly obsessive manner. I will think about things that have happened to me years ago that have no connection with my present time, and really have no need to worry over it. Sometimes they're things that don't even involve me. I find that I'm going over these situations to determine how it could have been handled differently to have a better outcome, almost as in a reenactment. A lot of the time this causes me to detach myself from life itself, because I'm so focussed on the past or future. I realized that all of those thoughts are stemmed from either fear, jealousy, anger, or embarrassment, even though they may appear to be positive.

Perhaps there is something in the past that is bothering you that you may not even realize, or there is something you're hopping for but you fear it will never happen.