Carl Fletcher

Carl Fletcher

@smallfish485966 · Jan 10, 2026

Does anyone else feel like their mind accelerates faster than they can keep up with?

I’m trying to describe a mental experience and I’m wondering if others recognize this.
For me, the problem isn’t overthinking in the anxious sense. It’s more like my mind accelerates beyond what I can process or execute.
When something clicks — a good idea, a creative project, insight, momentum — my thinking speed suddenly ramps up. Ideas stack on top of each other faster than I can work through them. I’ll be mentally at step 15 while I’m still physically doing step 2.
It doesn’t feel emotional in the usual way. It feels mechanical. Like a system overheating.
Imagine a laptop fan spinning faster and faster until the whole machine feels unstable.
The strange part is that this often happens when things are going well. Flow, success, creativity, clarity — those trigger it more than stress or sadness.
Common advice like “go for a walk” or “try to relax” doesn’t help, because it doesn’t slow the process. It actually gives my mind more room to run.
What I seem to struggle with isn’t motivation or discipline, but regulating the speed and volume of my thinking. Once it crosses a certain threshold, it feels like there’s no built-in brake.
I’m curious if others experience this:
• Thinking th

Carl Fletcher

@smallfish485966 · Jan 10, 2026

i feel like i’m a better, happier person since leaving my family & hometown

A few years ago i moved rather far away from my family & hometown. I’ve noticed since leaving i feel not only happier in my day or day life but i feel i’m also now i better person. I’ve always had an unhealthy family dynamic. I don’t have any bond with my parents, grandparents or any extended family. My mother wasn’t much of wife to my dad nor a mother to us kids. My dad on the other hand likes to ignore problems. They divorced when i was 10, remarried, had more kids. I grew up poor. Never had a thing handed to me. I was considered the problem child. I had anger issues, i caused drama in my friend groups and jobs i had. I didn’t really ever care about school or life really. I was angry at the world. I told my family from a young age that i was getting out of there and moving far away. I remember being a child and praying to whatever god is out there that i’d wake up and the life i was given was a bad dream and i had a mom who acted like a mother, father who cared, we had a better house, money, because they did better in life and i was normal.
I moved away in my mid 20’s. I remember no one believed i was actually leaving when i told them. They kinda laughed at me told me i was being

Carl Fletcher

@smallfish485966 · Jan 10, 2026

My husband was cheating on me with my best friend and I accidentally got him arrested…

I (31 female) am telling this story about my now husband (32 male) about 5 months after the truth came out. I feel the need to protect my husband and my relationship so I haven’t told my friends or most of my family but I have felt the urge to share my story because it’s quite insane so buckle up.
5 months ago, my friend stormed into my apartment first thing in the morning, he screamed through the place that my husband was a lying, cheating piece of shit and I needed to know the truth. At this point we had been married for over a year and, as it turned out, my friend was dating the woman my husband (then boyfriend) cheated on me with.
Turns out, the summer before we got engaged, my husband had a 3 month affair with a coworker of his (mid 20s female). The real kicker? The entire time by husband was encouraging me to befriend this girl because “we’re so similar and would get along so well.” Well he was partially right and this girl became my best friend for the next year. To the point that she lived with us for a couple weeks then moved into an apartment in our complex just across the car park.
I know now that the affair ended 9 days before my husband and I were engaged when they hoo