Honestly, I just do not know how much of the changes in me comes from age.

A problem I have had for years is 1 or 2 lines of a song getting stuck in my head for hours or days. It is different then racing thoughts. I feel like the repetition is driving me mad.

A couple of months ago I was desperate, the singing would not stop, and I just reached into my spirit, felt the inner me, and pushed up into my head like a balloon, pushing all thoughts O.U.T. Even a glimmer of a thought I pushed, refusing to be defeated. I ended everything.

It worked.

Since that first time, when my brain starts repeating, (if I notice and if it gets bad enough to respond) I can push it out. It is almost like a muscle. A muscle of stubbornness that I turn toward myself. The utter and total refusal to listen or allow any drifting thought to form, or to repeat. When I start to think, I respond angrily that I will not listen, and somehow that shuts me up.

I doubt I solved my issue, but for now, my inner repeating blabbermouth cannot beat my anger at it.

Edit Addition: Telling my mind to stop thinking never worked, but responding to my thinking by refusing to listen seems too. I stubbornly, angrily refuse to listen and soon it seems to dissipate.