YouTube Clip of the Week:”Rocket Dogs I: Extreme Racing”
Many people with bipolar disorder, general anxiety disorder or major depression suffer from racing thoughts. It’s very hard to describe racing thoughts to someone who never experiences them. They do vary from person to person in their intensity, frequency and ability to incapacitate.
With me, for example, once the thoughts begin to race and jump from one thing to another, I can’t sleep. I can’t concentrate. Sometimes, the thoughts make me so upset that my heart pounds, I throw up, I cry or my entire body tembles.
Now, I have it easy compared to other people with racing thoughts. Mine eventually go away. I was reminded of this when I did a post on David Berkowitz and have had racing thoughts ever since. I had to take a Benadryl (a decongestant) in order to get any sleep and I probably will have to do so again tonight.
I think a good way of describing racing thoughts is to look at Jack Russell terrier racing. Jack Russell terriers are small dogs, of which Eddie on Fraiser is a good example. If you’ve ever been ten minutes with a Jack Russell then you know the meaning of the word “intense”. I saw one show called Aftermath: Population Zero that wondered what would happen to the world if humans suddenly disappeared. They predicted that all small dogs would be eated by biger dogs. The makers of that show obviously never met a Jack Russell. I’m convinced they are secret leaders of wolf packs.
Well, watch the film and it kind of portrays racing thoughts. I usually have a frantic background soundtrack to the thoughts, too, like in the film.
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