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Sometimes it's the same song for like a week, and the only way to get rid of it is to listen to it again. It generally makes me never want to listen to that song again :D

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Yeah, I don't know if there's anything that can be done about this one. I just kind of put up with it, it's a bit annoying but not massively debilitating. Does it bother you a lot?

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Some weeks I just get in with it. Other weeks I just want to pop the diazepam and go to sleep. I have had been suffering with intrusive thoughts since September 2013 was firstly ion citalopram till Jan and then went on escitalopram in January and this is when the music started. I have been having CBT and will be starting a new drug loefpramine next week.

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Its a brainlock - when I get it the same thoughts whirr constantly in my brain; this is known as a "thought loop".

Jeffrey Schwartz explains why this happens in the book "Brainlock" irs like a car stuck in gear, a vinyl record where the needle sticks in the track.

What is happening is that in the three key parts of the frontal lobe in the brain, thoughts are sticking and not passing through and resolving themselves.Hence your music whirrs round, doesn't stop.

To resolve my "thought lops", which I only get episodically, i have to find something that shocks/bumps the needle out of the groove its stuck in.

It tends to need something really intense and absorbing, something that is so all embracing that it breaks through the breakdown in the brain's automatic transmission and heals the lock.

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I have it too at times (thoughts that is) with both great & annoying tunes, but by way of comparison to my main OCD, it barely registers on the OCD Richter scale.

When coming off of citalopram, I had annoying tinnitus. Sometimes it was a dull whooshing noise, sometimes it was a single high pitched note, & other times a really annoying two tone. I understand musical hallucinations are possible too as part of tinnitus, so if you are genuinely 'hearing' music, it could be this instead.

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I had a couple of lines of Dire Strait's Romeo and Juliet in my head, and they weren't even the right lyrics either. At one point it was really beginning to upset me, as it wouldn't stop. Eventually though I just stopped fighting it and it gradually went.

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Guest Sisyphus
Lincoln83, on 20 Jul 2014 - 8:20 PM, said:

The annoying scenario where music is in my head and humming when u have heard a tune

Oh I get that all the time. Is that really an OCD thing or a people thing?

Sorry if I've misunderstood.

Edit: OK so it just occurred to me I possibly do this to an extreme - like ex colleagues getting annoyed with me for humming/drumming the same thing ad nauseum.

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Hi Legend

Good link

It suggests getting involved in some moderately difficult task such as doing puzzles - this links quite well with my experience with "thought loops" where I have found that involved distraction can "bump" the brain out of the lock.

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Guest legend

yep or do what i do , play the song thats stuck and listen to it , breaks the chain link

todays song was billy joels ohhhhh ohhhhhh for the longest time

apologies if its started to play in your head

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Hi felix, I get that. Not all the time. But sometimes I can be in bed and it sounds like iv left the tv on downstairs. When I strain to listen.. Then sometimes it can sound like pos tinnitus sounds.. Although iv not had that in yrs.. Lived with my Ex boyfriend & his friends who were Djs lol.. Never again..

In the past iv heard music playing.. Beautiful strange music.. I thought it was coming from outside but no 1 else gould hear it

Hi Yasmin,

Yeah tinnitus is far more noticeable when laying awake in bed in total quiet, so it could well be.

DJ,s lol...... Loud music sure can have an effect on hearing, & I remember the after effects of some of the events that I attended. (1 place even the ceiling & walls were sweating lol)

Re- Beautiful music, it wasn't panpipes was it? There used to be a fella in my town with panpipes, & a stereo playing backing music (not a busker). I used see him about in various locations, but the funniest time was when I was up on the hills, & beautiful music was emanating from downland bushes lol. I bet it threw a lot of people lol.

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I didn't quite get that last bit lol. Was it the busker? Or u actually heard it?

:lol:

Sorry Yasmin, I should've explained it a bit better.

The fella with the stereo on his bike & playing the panpipes looks like a busker, but doesn't do it for money. I have seen/heard him playing in various locations, but one day I was walking in a quiet-ish location on the hills & heard his music emanating from dense woodland/bushes. I just had visions of other walkers/sightseers that are not local to the area hearing it too & questioning their sanity. lol

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Guest Sisyphus

Coincidentally I was just(and still am) listening to pan pipe music as I read that!
I would put a link but it's forbidden on here. But you can google "Gaga - Cave of Forgotten Dreams OST".
(cue some smarty pants saying it's not pan pipes now, guaranteed)



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Sorry Yasmin, I should've explained it a bit better.

The fella with the stereo on his bike & playing the panpipes looks like a busker, but doesn't do it for money. I have seen/heard him playing in various locations, but one day I was walking in a quiet-ish location on the hills & heard his music emanating from dense woodland/bushes. I just had visions of other walkers/sightseers that are not local to the area hearing it too & questioning their sanity. lol

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Can't say I buy into the reincarnation game, David, but I like some of the buddhist meditations.

Glad you are finding the therapy helpful, what do you find especially helpful with your particular therapy?

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Cool - there's no obligation to buy into anything like that - we can only make our own minds up about it, or not. I certainly don't have any reason to buy into reincarnation or any of the other religious ideas I've encountered on my travels. Instead, I just try to sit as far back as possible, gather info, contemplate ideas, and enjoy some of the inherent wisdom that crops up occasionally in those teachings. Of course the universe is just one big holographic projection though. Ha ha made you look.


re: therapy: it's too early to comment on the CBT aspect I think, but after seriously not getting on with my first therapist, this one's an absolute dream. No judgement, listening, actually agreeing with some ideas, sense of humour, no sitting staring weirdness. But we have discussed the ideas behind why ERP works and ways of approaching it as well as going into some past juju of mine.
Also had an interesting discussion today about whether just stopping doing compulsions(however that might be achieved) is enough to treat OCD. Open ended discussion.

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It's lovely when we can all dress a little more casually - sadly apart from "dress down Friday' men tend to lose out in my view - the ladies appear to have have more scope in wearing summery togs.

See you back on the other threads - not sure too many people have the capability in OCD to just "stop" rituals without ERP - happy to debate that on another thread!

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