Does it happen to you that you read a book and after a few minutes you have forgotten what you have read? Are you excessively bored? If you feel identified with any of these issues, you may suffer from accelerated thought syndrome (SPA).
We live in a time in which we have at our disposal any type of information. No matter what topic we are looking for knowledge about, we have all kinds of information at the click of a button. Although it may seem positive, this abundance of data can cause us problems.
Accelerated thought syndrome is a mental disorder that the Brazilian doctor Augusto Cury has called “the evil of the century.” As stated in an interview on the BBC, the syndrome of accelerated thinking is a type of anxiety that causes the mind to speed up worryingly due to the excess of stimuli that a person can receive in a single day: “the excess of information , activity, worries and social pressures can accelerate the mind at a frightening speed.
The symptoms of racing thoughts can be similar to those of an anxiety disorder. Malaga psychologists assure that among the most frequent symptoms of the SPA disorder we find:
