[yucky]

Not sure if it would work for you, but a friend of mine who was noticing something similar has joked on numerous occasions that what ended up working for him to get out of that funk was going on long walks and talking to himself, literally. Framing problems out in his head and then talking out solutions or different approaches or whatever out loud. The joke being that he regained his sanity by looking like a crazy person, but if it works...

Probably easier to do if you live near some woods, lest your neighbors try to have you committed.

[_yigw]

I used to have automatic long conversations with myself and that really helped me. But after the start of an important period in my life the cognitive back and forth stopped, and a lot of times i tried to re-start it but my attempts were in vain.

For example: "What do i want to eat today"

"Yesterday you eat X but you being thinking about ordering Y for a long time"

"Yes, but i don't want to spend that much money for Y. It doesn't worth it. I can by Z with that money."

" Well... then thing something else... you can by something that costs less"

That back and forth also applied to more serious matters.

[Wolfbeta]

Just wear a headset.