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DRZ

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Who here thinks?

I dont mean in a sense that you consider things as events unfold, but as a constant ticking over of disassembling things in your head that never stops?

For example, I was in work today and I started thinking about something that a customer had said and from there I ended up thinking about the minutest detail of a tiny part of the overall problem - long after the customer had left. It just happens and I cant stop it!

Aside from these huge trains of thought, sometimes I will think to myself that I am not thinking but then usually "out of nowhere" will pop a "perfect" reply to a conversation / thread that stopped long ago! :(

People who know me seem to believe I think too much about things in general - is this true? Surely there are people out there that have the same sort of thing going on, or is this some sort of insanity?

/me hopes for some more OcUK nutters...
 
I think i understand what you mean and it sure is annoying when you think of that perfect reply to something someone had said to you ages ago. "Why didn't i say <blank> instead of <blank>?!".

It's good to think. Question everything.

Out of curiousity, what did the customer say to you?
 
I think way too much. I get to the point where I can't actually sleep because I can't turn my brain off.
 
The internal voice 'me' is a very powerful tool! Iv changed my thought patterns a lot and it makes you a nicer person usually :p
 
I normally think too much. Im constantly analyzing events that have happened and the option/paths that these events and conversations could have taken. Stupid really, as there isn't much that can be done once they've happened. Although I suppose if a similar situation occurs again, you will have worked out the perfect answer/solution.
 
I often go off on complete tangents, like when I'm working, my concentration will drift from designing something, onto testing a bit of code, onto Google research and onto answering a string of emails.

Then I'll sit back and say, what the **** was I just doing? :(
 
SideWinder said:
I think i understand what you mean and it sure is annoying when you think of that perfect reply to something someone had said to you ages ago. "Why didn't i say <blank> instead of <blank>?!".
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Yup, I do that too.

But if you do it a lot and you end up going over and over the scenario in your mind, and feeling bad about whatever response you gave, it can be a symptom of Social Anxiety Disorder.
 
My brain ticks like a clock.
It is always thinking until i get so tired it messes up what its thinking about then its just me and my eyes after that.
Damm brain :(
 
SideWinder said:
Question everything.
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This is part of the problem - I dont question everything, it gets picked apart in minute detail.

Problem is, I could quite easily get so "deep" into the problem that I stop seeing the whole thing as a problem but a collection of yet more questions. I have to stop myself else it just gets silly.


The customer's problem was that he didnt think 80gsm paper was suitable for his printer and wanted to try 90gsm paper. The problem was more to do with the feed rollers glazing over with the coating they put on the inkjet paper he was using (which doesnt get used on laser paper)

From there, I ended up thinking about the behaviour of that coating at various temperatures, properties of rubber, ways around it and all sorts of other teeny tiny little things, such as the properties of the quartz in sandpaper ;)
 
I'm rather similar. Possibly not with events such as yours from which I can easily detach myself, but I certainly overthink the course of my 'emotional life'. Things which people have said to me, why I wasn't invited to this or that party or pub trip, which people like me the most...

Don't do it. It's a little soul-destroying. It makes you cynical.
 
DRZ said:
From there, I ended up thinking about the behaviour of that coating at various temperatures, properties of rubber, ways around it and all sorts of other teeny tiny little things, such as the properties of the quartz in sandpaper ;)
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OMG You're the dude from Prison Break. :D But yeah I'm always thinking about things. I hate it sometimes. Its usually the bad things. Suddently remembering an arguement from 3 years ago and then replaying it and debating it in your head with imaginary friends. Some people may remember my thread from a few months ago about how my "friend" made me very depressed about ignoring my hypoglycemia and about how I tried to resolve it resulting in my "friend" saying he would never treat people the way I supposedly treated him. I think about it daily. Its like I'm sitting there watching TV and BOOM in pops the guys name and I have to struggle to focus on the TV. I try and concentrate on fun tunes that remind me of good times to try and bring myself out of it but ya know sometimes your brain just wants to think about things.

But yeah, I think about a hell of a lot of stupid things in stupid detail.
 
Bit of anxiety maybe, or perhaps a problem you might have that you don't fully comprehend so you pull other things to bits instead because you can't get to what is really troubling you..
 
dmpoole said:
How many of you solve problems during your sleep?
I have many times.
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No im usually running away from somebody whos trying to kill me, or in a room with spikes closing in - same sort of thing but its the room trying to kill me :D
 
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