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Postby mac885 » Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:05 pm

I have several other issues with OCD, as do many people, but the strangest and most persistent comes with music. It completely controls my life, and I'm focused on it more than the average person. I'm a musician myself, but thats not beside the point. I'm sure at some point you've all turned to your friends and stated, "yea I've had that song stuck in my head for hours." But with me, once a certain song, or even a small clip of a song is listened to, it loops itself for DAYS, even MONTHS. Then it proceeds to change my mood, self esteem, the way I treat others, and generally drives me into borderline insanity. The only solution is letting it run its course until my brain finds another one to torture me with. These songs tend to constantly flood my head with images, whether an ex-girlfriend, a dying friend or family member, and even events that have never happened to me, such as extreme drug addiction, societal pain, and inhumanity around the world. It will even enter my mind and make me violently ill, usually when someone dies or I feel injustice has been practiced somewhere in the world. It's a constant plague that haunts me in my daily life, like maybe something spiritual is attempting to tell me something. This maybe the newest psychological subfield! Anyone have any thoughts?
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Postby Gsf-600 » Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:36 pm

About anything can become obsessive thoughts(and it's usually insignificant, stupid things like that). I don't know if getting too emotionnaly attached to a song has something to do with OCD but it's clearly too much obsessive...

Some pieces of music do squat my mind from time to time preventing me from concentrating on useful tasks but in another way. Even though I'm no musician, I constantly break it down note by note and I can't help having to tap my feet, fingers, even teeth, etc... to follow each notes even in inappropriate times or places. But I don't know if it's compulsive or just "feeling the rhythm" a little too much. I know I must look like I took too much coffee(even tough I never drink that) when someone sees me like that... :?
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