{"id":170,"date":"2014-06-17T00:17:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T07:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/05\/07\/bipolar-brain-chatter\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:57","slug":"bipolar-brain-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-brain-chatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Brain Chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"brain<\/a>Hi Julie,<\/p>\n

On your radio show from a few years ago, you spoke of your \u201cbrain chatter\u201d? Can you explain what you mean by this?For myself, sometimes I just run the same words over and over in my head when I am anxious, maybe in a group of people. I do not believe it to be psychosis (i.e. audio hallucinations), or even a delusion, but one thing I do know it to be: annoying. It is even as if it exists in a certain physical location in my skull.<\/p>\n

Weird\u2014huh?<\/p>\n

I told my sister about it who said, \u201cNo you don\u2019t!\u201d
\nI lied and agreed with her, \u201cYou\u2019re right, I don\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

C.<\/p>\n

Hi C.<\/p>\n

Ah, brain chatter. This is what I call the brain in a blender feeling I get when I\u2019m sick. I have so many thoughts and sounds in my head I have trouble functioning. It\u2019s like having a group of people following me around while talking to each other through my ears.<\/p>\n

I get it with agitated depression \u2013 the opposite would be catatonic depression where I don\u2019t really have thoughts at all.<\/p>\n

Agitated depression is noisy- there are often comments about what you\u2019re doing wrong and how you\u2019re never succeed. You can hear conversations you have already had or ones you\u2019re going to have.<\/p>\n

The brain chatter is really bad when I\u2019m psychotic as the noises are distorted and very confusing. They just won\u2019t be quiet. Sometimes I hear someone talking to me or feel like I\u2019m at a very loud party where I\u2019m not a welcome guest.<\/p>\n

You can have manic brain chatter as well.<\/p>\n

I simply use the term brain chatter to mean the thoughts, sounds, noises, voices, music, etc in your head that you don\u2019t want there. You didn\u2019t ask for it and you want it to go away so that you can think clearly.<\/p>\n

When I started to get a lot better last year, the main improvement was LESS BRAIN CHATTER.<\/p>\n

My book Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed has techniques for getting rid of it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s funny that you had to lie to your sister! We can\u2019t expect everyone to understand our weird brains!<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

\"GTD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"brain<\/a>Hi Julie,<\/p>\n

On your radio show from a few years ago, you spoke of your \u201cbrain chatter\u201d? Can you explain what you mean by this?For myself, sometimes I just run the same words over and over in my head when I am anxious, maybe in a group of people. I do not believe it to be psychosis (i.e. audio hallucinations), or even a delusion, but one thing I do know it to be: annoying. It is even as if it exists in a certain physical location in my skull.<\/p>\n

Weird\u2014huh?<\/p>\n

I told my sister about it who said, \u201cNo you don\u2019t!\u201d I lied and agreed with her, \u201cYou\u2019re right, I don\u2019t.\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

C.<\/p>\n

Hi C.<\/p>\n

Ah, brain chatter. This is what I call the brain in a blender feeling I get when I\u2019m sick. I have so many thoughts and sounds in [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11305,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/11305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}