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I'm just curious if anyone else can relate. Even on meds, I almost no matter what, cannot block music in my head when I'm working, studying, etc.
While it may not be a bad thing (it's better than violence or porn), but it frustrates the hell out of me sometimes, am I alone? Again, not asking if I'm alone with ADD, alone with cannot get the music out of my brain
You could sing it...get it out. That's what I like to do when it's MUSIC. But when other thoughts are swirling around in there, and I can't control it--I admit how frustrating it can be. Can't sleep or anything when it's happening.
I with you. I used to have music everywhere. Doing the dishes, exercising, showering, washing the car, yardwork. Oh, I think I got confused by the post. I cant focus unless I have music around. I cant study, cant concentrate...im hopeless. I have an ongoing ear infection now though so I have had to try to manage without music. Its one of the hardest things ive ever done. I cant concentrate if people are talking though...it makes me insane.
I can relate. I do the same thing and I will get one song stuck in my head and play it to myself until I get sick of it. When I was in school I would be trying to concentrate on my work, but instead I would be daydreaming and listening to music in my mind. The strange thing is I don't even listen to music that much. Most of the time when I'm driving the radio is off, yet I still play it in my mind. I do the same thing with movies too. If I watch a movie I can memorize the whole thing and play back scenes in my head.
Why would medication help? Medication has side effects, costs money, and makes you dependent.
Maybe you are just accidentally concentrating on something we all have to some degree - distractions in our brain.
I would have thought that yoga, meditation, or cognitive behaviour therapy would be better for you.
It might also help to get your ears checked, some forms of tinnitus can create a 'music' in your head, as the brain is trying to make sense of a noise.
I had "Red Red Wine..." going in my head for years. And "I can see clearly now..." that song too. I have to turn those off when they come on the radio, and they are played often for some reason.
Those wore paths in my neuro circuits.
Is it like tinnitus? You know, the ringing in the ears stuff, cuz that can manifest as more than just ringing. Below is part of what Wikipedia had to say about it. Or, is it more like you're constantly reciting the lyrics to songs in your head? Either way, sucky.
Wikipedia:
Tinnitus (pronounced /tɪˈnaɪtəs/ or /ˈtɪnɪtəs/,[1] from the Latin word for "ringing"[2]) is the perception of sound in the human ear in the absence of corresponding external sound(s).
Tinnitus can be perceived in one or both ears or in the head. It is usually described as a ringing noise, but in some patients it takes the form of a high pitched whining, buzzing, hissing, humming, or whistling sound, or as ticking, clicking, roaring, "crickets" or "tree frogs" or "locusts", tunes, songs, or beeping.[3] It has also been described as a "whooshing" sound, as of wind or waves.[4]
Is this a side effect of ADD? I can understand why your taking the medication for ADD.
I used to have this problem but I attributed it to Obsessive Compulsive tendencies which are a part of my anxiety disorder. For some reason the problem seems to have passed.
Sometimes it was a phrase or a part of a commercial. One time it was Guthy Renker, over and over again. It drove me NUTS.
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