Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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MorningSadness00 03/15/2011

Can anxiety cause racing thoughts?

Has anyone on here that doesn't have Bipolar Disorder had them from anxiety?

MorningSadness00 03/15/2011

Anyone at all?

deleted_user 03/15/2011

Absolutley! I am not bi-polar and my racing thoughts usually happen at night or early in the morning or at least thats the hardest time for me to control them.....

deleted_user 03/15/2011

I have racing thoughts along with my anxiety and panic attacks especially at night. I think it's just a part of anxiety.

GamerHero 03/15/2011

Yeah I think I have had those before. Sometimes I get to thinking such crazy thoughts that I just can't breathe so I just have to force myself to laugh or hit something or else I'll really lose it.

deleted_user 03/16/2011

Yeah, racing thoughts are very, very common! These are actually one of the biggest ways that we cause ourselves to have anxiety, as hard as that may be to believe.

deleted_user 03/16/2011

Yes I have racing thoughts. I have anxiety NOS with panic disorder. I also have a form of OCD that is described as pure O. So I don't do anything repeatedly, I think about something repeatedly. You might want to google it if you think it sounds familiar.

And there is something about night time. I have heard different opinions. Most common is that it is because everyone else is asleep and we are alone that makes depression or anxiety worse.

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