I can't shut my mind off

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I currently do not posess the ability to shut my mind off and relax. I'm too conscious to the point of being self-conscious, and this is making it difficult to convey my thoughts, something I was once good at. Perhaps I need an outlet for my creativity. But what? Any ideas? What do you all create?

I usually don't ask for help because I don't know how, and this is why my topics are always worded so awkwardly.

No one can shut their mind off without losing consciousness.

Some possibilities:

* do something intellectually intense/demanding until your brain is exhausted (write computer code, computer speed chess, fast-paced computer game?)
* hot shower/bath
* meditation
* read something immersive until you get tired
* a couple/three beers
* kava kava
* lower body temperature to cryogenic level
* dose of whatever Micheal Jackson was getting as a sleep aid
* find rotating black hole and position self such that time w.r.t. the rest of the universe such that brain activity is slowed down

I also have trouble shutting my mind off. My thoughts just keep on racing and they're the same old thoughts. Gender issues, unpredictable people at my clubhouse and a staff person at the clubhouse who doesn't know how to deal with the anxiety and depression that I have. I wish that there was something out there that would calm me and my thinking down. I'm always on the edge these days. I hope that things get better for you and I hope that they get better for me as well. I think that I'll take a hot bath after supper. That should help.

I am constantly at the state of being overly conscious. All these details drive me nuts.
But it gets even worse - I have a really bad case of tinnitus.. You can imagine where I'm going with this.
I would suggest exercising. Physical exhaustion seems to put my mind at rest.
Other alternatives are really bad.. Some days I would stay up for literally as long as I could it gives a really nice high. Do not recommend. And no alcohol as well it creates a very severe disbalance. Sometimes I would just unintentionally skim through completely random information for hours and hours. All of this has done a lot of harm to me, at this point my mind randomly gets dissociated way too often. There is anxiety associated as well.

Hah, wow... Totally relate.

I pay too much attention to senses, and the mild tinnitus I do have drives me *insane*. I clearly remember when I used to be able to lie down at night and hear everything around me. If it was absolutely silent (this was once: underground in a cave), my ears sensed nothing at all. And I remember most of the occasions on which that maddening buzz/screech got louder and louder.

@Mindslave:

Some more specifics on what undesirable things your mind is doing would be useful. Are you noticing things too much, with such strength that it's distracting in situations where you'd rather not be distracted? Are thoughts racing from one subject to another too fast for you to convey a concrete construction onto media, or to another person? Something else?

I'm noticing too much body language, too much detail with behavior patterns, and generally all the stuff Aspies are supposed to be bad at. I'm almost the anti-Aspie Aspie. No, I don't mean I'm a narcissist or one of those evil NT scoundrels, I mean I have Aspergers, but I don't have much difficulty socializing. It's quite the clash, and it is driving me nuts. I do write things down sometimes, but that just makes things more confusing, and it gets harder to relax.

That would be anxiety.