How can I stop talking to myself it's really annoying!?
Question:
Or I find myself going over situations in my head over and over again why is this.
Answers:
Talking out loud --
This is a memory function. You remember things you've heard (auditory memory) about ten seconds longer than you remember silent thoughts. If you're coming up with important points, you may talk to yourself just to keep them at the forefront of your mind. An easy way to stop this is just to write down what you're saying, since the paper will remember it for a lifetime.
Thinking over and over --
In psychology it's called "ruminating." It can be bad for you, actually -- if you're prone to depression. This is why women get depression more often than men... they ruminate more.
You can stop ruminating by learning how to mind-map. You can look it up online, but, basically, you get a blank piece of paper and write the subject in the center. Everything that comes to mind from that topic, you splinter off to the sides with lines. Just a word or two for each, or pictures. Then you do it again for each of those. (Not in order, just do your thinking naturally, whatever comes up; this is a visual way of seeing how the brain naturally works.)
In this way, you can explore every bit of the topic you're thinking of without having to go over and over it again to remember things, or remembering to double-back to look at tangents.
This isn't a mindmap, per se, but it will give you the idea: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
millions of people do it,its normal.
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