Why do i repeat things in my head after they happens is this anxiety, OCD, or po!
Question: It depends on if the events you're chewing over and over again are bad ones. Accidents? Abuses? Injustices? Some people have easier to let things go while others have difficulties with it - they worry all the time about everything. Worrying all the time about everything can be a syndrome of GAD or General Anxiety Disorder. Usually this disorder is hereditary or you have grown up with a parent with the same problem - you take over the same pattern. If your mother or father was worrying about everything, you probably got a picture of the world being dangerous.
Put a rubber band or a fillet around your wrist and every time you find your self repeating things, you pull the fillet so it will lash your wrist. If you repeat this over and over again, the brain will be interrupted in it's train of thoughts and finally the brain realise that's no use to continue the useless thinking. In post traumatic stress the brain can't get rid of frightening pictures that have occurred from a frightening episode. The brain can't catalogue the information properly and the flashbacks are a fact.
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - is a form of therapy used to help the brain catalogue and put behind information which disturb the cognitive process in the brain.
Answers: It depends on if the events you're chewing over and over again are bad ones. Accidents? Abuses? Injustices? Some people have easier to let things go while others have difficulties with it - they worry all the time about everything. Worrying all the time about everything can be a syndrome of GAD or General Anxiety Disorder. Usually this disorder is hereditary or you have grown up with a parent with the same problem - you take over the same pattern. If your mother or father was worrying about everything, you probably got a picture of the world being dangerous.
Put a rubber band or a fillet around your wrist and every time you find your self repeating things, you pull the fillet so it will lash your wrist. If you repeat this over and over again, the brain will be interrupted in it's train of thoughts and finally the brain realise that's no use to continue the useless thinking. In post traumatic stress the brain can't get rid of frightening pictures that have occurred from a frightening episode. The brain can't catalogue the information properly and the flashbacks are a fact.
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - is a form of therapy used to help the brain catalogue and put behind information which disturb the cognitive process in the brain.
OCD is related to anxiety. Repeating things mentally is a compulsion to keep obsessive control over your reality. Hopefully you are simply anxious (fear based state).
You would probably remember some definite traumas eg war, car accidents. The truly severe ones are often hidden in your subconscious mind because they are too awful to handle consciously yet.
That's called ruminating. It could be any of the conditions you mentioned or none of them.
My sister used to say to me when we were kids [I asked a lot of questions]:
Yours is not to reason why
Yours is just to laugh or cry.
I chose laughing!
Try to catch yourself saying negative thoughts and turn them in to positives instead.
It may well just be your mind trying to digest what's happened.
I could be any of these things. The best thing to do is to ask your doctor to refer you to a psychiatrist. In North America, generalized anxiety and/or depresstion affects 40% of the population and OCD affects about 2%. Good luck!
sounds like ocd - u have to repeat or go over everything in ur head ...? Like check ur own actions and thoughts ... ?
Good question!
I think it depends on what you're repeating. I replay situations in my head and think how I should have dealt with it instead. In my case I think it's anxiety because I always beat myself up for not handling a "better way" and then proceed with thoughts that people think I'm an idiot..etc.
If the repeating is more like watching a movie - that may be post traumatic stress. I guess it depends on what kind of situation it is... your question was a little vague on that aspect.