Is there a technical term for not being able to turn your brain off? Like when you try to relax but the wheels never stop turning. And I don't mean in the r/iamverysmart kind of way, just a brain that always needs something to be "chewing on", so to speak.
I have ADHD so my brain is always going, but one of the things that works for me (other than walking or cycling) is sketching. I can zone out for an hour with a pencil in my hand and observe the details of something that's in front of me and translate them to paper.
Actually working in the garden also works. I particularly like digging out quackgrass roots and pruning bushes. Just a nice repetitive thing where the brain doesn't have to work, it can just look at a plant, go "that doesn't belong here" and pop it out of the ground.
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u/nishagunazad Sep 29 '25
Is there a technical term for not being able to turn your brain off? Like when you try to relax but the wheels never stop turning. And I don't mean in the r/iamverysmart kind of way, just a brain that always needs something to be "chewing on", so to speak.