Making things up.in my mind

I do this fairly frequently but I tend to catch it quite early these days, recognise that I'm doing it and say out loud "Ok, stop now."

I'm sure it's related to past unresolved trauma and present or future anxiety, but I try not to let it run too far anymore.

Mindfulness has helped and it's better than it used to be. I hope this helps.

I used to have it when I was abused years ago but not yet. I think it’s trauma related 

If it’s playing scenarios (not negative ones) I have it in my mind and it replays again and again. For example I have a scenario where I speak to mr Grusch about UAPs (related to my interest) or some romantic scenarios but they don’t involve any abuse or anything that someone potentially could do to me. And yes, I do rehearse potential conversations and I also give looooong monologues about things that I want to talk about or things that concern me. I give these monologues to the air (I have an imaginative listener) - they don’t complain about me being boring or obsessive. 

I think making up scenarios is in order to prepare, the conversations are scripting so you know what to say, it is related to masking. So I would say it is ASD.

The issue comes with thinking about all the unlikely possibilities as it uses lots of time and, more importantly, emotional energy working out how you will feel for things that never happen. I used to do it a lot.
I still fantasize about random things. Sometimes I think it is my subconscious just checking to make sure the emotions are working.

Not sure what you do about it, other than to control your thoughts and steer them away towards something nice instead.

You can also fact check your feelings. If you are resenting people for things they haven't done then write down what they have done and check if your emotions are based on fact.

Also be careful about deciding what other people are thinking. It is easy to assume you know what others think or may do, but it may all be based on misunderstandings. If you know them well, you can always try checking with them which may save a lot of energy being wasted on nothing. (Be aware they may not tell the truth, so you have to have some sort of feel for that, but that's another issue.). 

You sound just like me. It's really tiring, you have all this preloaded dialogue and argument for all these situations that may never happen.

Mine hasn't started to enter the real world although if I'm having a conversation sometime I can't recall if I've had it before or whether it a memory of a pre rehearsed one.

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I used to get this a lot, I believe it could be related to my propensity for rehearsal of anticipated situations, for example if I had a job interview then I would rehearse likely questions from the interviewer and what my responses would be.

I used to do this but in a negative way about likely social interactions with friends and acquaintances, I thought that they might be mean to me or laugh at me if I did or said certain things, or that they were enjoying themselves more without me, if you are going through something similar then you have my sympathies.

Ultimately after some time I finally realised that I could not predict what other people would say or do, and that whatever interaction I imagined was exactly that, imagined, it was not real and would likely never be, it can be hard to get thoughts like this out of your head, but try not to let it wind you up.

I'm the same i suffer from trust issues and a strong imagination that doesn't switch off. I have a wierd sense of humour to go with 

I do that too, I think in part its natural disaster planing, you're testing out scenarios where these annoynaces come to a head. I know for me it's partly cPTSD too. I have to make an effort to remind myself that these things haven't happened and may never happen, I can start to control it, but it does take a lot of will power.

What might be more useful is to think about why these people annoy you?

Do you have to spend time around them?

It sounds to me as though you don't feel safe around these people, why is that?

I experience similar issues, not sure why exactly but this has always been s feature. I know I suffer from trust issues and have a very strong imagination….

My brain is the same. I think it's a combination of my anxiety, autism and ADHD. It isn't pleasant so I do sympathise.