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#1
Oct 10, 2015, 09:46 AM
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Ever get that tune locked in your mind that plays over and over from 3 a.m. that keeps you awake and all through the next day only to start over again, and again day after day?
Uptown Funk was fun, now I'm so sick of hearing it in my head and on the stereo. It's been reverberating for 3 days now. Another is Poisons 'Nothin But A Good time'. I barely get any sleep from 3-5 a.m. till I get up because the songs are so upbeat, blaring, and persistent. What gives? Is it a bipolar thing? DID thing? Meds thing? Anyone else suffer....yes suffer from this form of mental torture? Even now it's constant repeat is in the background playing.  It just changed to Poison seeing I just mentioned it. Blah |
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#2
Oct 10, 2015, 09:50 AM
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Yes-- it's so common it even has a name: earworm. I've had "the Ballad of Mary Foster stuck in my head for a month. It's gotten very annoying.
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| usehername, WibblyWobbly
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#3
Oct 10, 2015, 10:15 AM
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Ugh, happens to me too...
Annnnd,,I mostly get songs that annoy me stuck in my head for days, weeks. Sigh 😔
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| usehername
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#4
Oct 10, 2015, 11:46 AM
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Ear worm! Lol
I'm wondering if it's the Prozac causing it because it's so driven. Maybe I'm a little hypo. I'm leaving off the 5 mg. to see what happens. |
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Oct 10, 2015, 11:56 AM
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I've read that earworms are especially common for those with OCD... probably true for plenty of bipolar and creative types as well though.
Specifically, the reason that certain songs get stuck is that they are repetitive in a certain way, that causes our brains to keep trying to resolve what's circular about them but without being able to finish the job. That's why it's sometimes the more "annoying" songs which we don't like that get stuck.
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| Trippin2.0, usehername
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Oct 10, 2015, 11:57 AM
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And here I thought I had my OCD figured out and mostly controlled.
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Oct 10, 2015, 12:03 PM
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I just saw a really funny episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that touched on this.. Cheri Oteri plays a nanny who had previously worked for years at an amusement park ride where they were always playing the same cartoon music on a loop, and she kept singing this one crazy-sounding looney tunes riff. Later Susie Essman's kid on the show turns the t.v. on and that music comes on and Cheri Oteri's character ends up having a psychotic break at that point.
That damn music has always played in my head as well... listen only at your own peril. 
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.” — Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28) |
| usehername
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#8
Oct 10, 2015, 12:45 PM
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I don't think I'm OCD, but maybe an other is? |
| usehername, vonmoxie
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#9
Oct 10, 2015, 10:31 PM
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I also suffer from this form of torture, and it's almost always songs I dont like. I will often wake ups the worst music that I could possibly think of, and it won't go away no matter what I do. It frequently lasts between days and weeks, often the same song, sometimes other terrible songs. I get a whole range of things, from pop music which I generally can't stand 2 commercial jingles which drive me totally insane. I wish I knew what to do about this. I had heard it was a side effect of lamictal, the hearing you guys talk about it seems there's more to it. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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Oct 11, 2015, 02:40 PM
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This happens before I'm hypomanic or manic. For days it's like a radio playing in my head. Annoying!!
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| vonmoxie
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Oct 11, 2015, 06:35 PM
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I actually slept through last night after reducing my AD a bit, but still had a merry go round in my head when I woke up this morning. |
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Oct 11, 2015, 07:22 PM
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I get it no matter what phase I'm in. It's non stop for the most part. Random days, I'll be free, but usually there's music I don't like in my head on repeat.
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Oct 11, 2015, 07:40 PM
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Right now I've got "the sound of silence" by Simon & Garfunkel, and there isn't even any reason for it. Didn't recently hear it, or see it referenced in media anywhere, no one has mentioned it to me recently ... It's like I've got an internal database that cross-references feelings to songs, but the feelings data is mostly invisible to me.
I try to just look at it as a clumsy internal DJ trying its best to entertain me, and when the track skips and gets stuck, I sometimes have to step in and do something to get it off the player. Sometimes the only way is to put on a new song.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.” — Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28) |
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Oct 12, 2015, 12:28 AM
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I get ace of bass songs stuck in my head. Often it's only a fragment of the song. Lol
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Oct 12, 2015, 04:38 AM
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It's 4:30 a.m. And once again Uptown Funk is blaring in my mind. I drank a glass of wine and now I'm drinking coffee to hopefully distract myself and go back to sleep. Maybe it is the Lamictal. It doesn't help none that our partner is stumbling around drunk waking me up a lot.
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Oct 12, 2015, 10:07 AM
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I think everyone gets this, not just people with mental illness. I had the Indiana Jones theme for a couple days last week
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Oct 12, 2015, 12:59 PM
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Thank you all, because every song mentioned here popped into my head and now they are on "shuffle" in the internal cd player in my head. That's how mine works. Power of suggestion along with my own list of tunes.
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Oct 12, 2015, 06:36 PM
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Haha, 'Uptown Funk' spent a few days in my head last week!
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Oct 12, 2015, 08:55 PM
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Because of this (and my often abnormal obsession with music), my pdoc always asks me "how's the music issue," ha!
Currently, Sloop John B has been on a loop in my head. I sing the entire song over and over again and even when I am busy it is in the backgroud. My mom says even those without mental illness get this too, although maybe not to such an extreme.
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Oct 12, 2015, 09:28 PM
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