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Songs stuck in your head
Do you ever get a song stuck in your head or part of a song on repeat. Even if you don’t like the song. Then you wonder what this means about you bc you have this song in your head?
Do you ever get a song stuck in your head or part of a song on repeat. Even if you don’t like the song. Then you wonder what this means about you bc you have this song in your head?
Omg yes I do I drive myself nuts with songs sometimes even yelling to myself to stop!
Yep! Try to listen to the song until it doesn't make you feel upset anymore.
Or just try to be cool with the song. "I might have this in my head all day and that's fine" OCD is kind of like a little sibling and it will keep pestering you until you stop giving it the attention it craves
Absolutely. Slightlt long comment here. So my intrusions recently have been around two shows. Up until recently, I was sure that while I enjoyed both shows A and B, I liked A better. That's how it was and I went about my life. However, since Nov last year, I had intrusive thoughts about whether I like show B better. It was a made rush of comparisons between the two because I know I like show A more but the brain is the brain right? So I started avoiding show B. Then I started doing exposures where I purposely listened to songs from show B and sat with the anxiety and discomfort. And those songs literally played in my head all day. It wont stop at all. It is exhausting.
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
When you get a stuck thought in your mind, as stupid or untrue as it may be, how do any of you block them out, or try to at least? It’s like my mind has another voice telling me making up the stupidest things?
I’m curious how many other people experience this! I’ve been diagnosed with severe OCD for 20 years now, about 10 years ago my little OCD brain came up with a series of words. It is saying everyone in my families name and then something negative, and then something positive. Since my brain attached to this series of words, it hasn’t stopped repeating in my mind. Like I said, it’s been 10 years, and this “phrase” is constantly repeating over and over in my head. When it’s finished, it just restarts again. My brain is constantly exhausted since it’s always talking. It’s kinda hard to word this so idk if it’ll make sense to you but let me know if this is something that you might experience as well!
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