Any one relate?

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Help! I know it might not be the sort of thing that I should do but whatever. I lost a special interest and then it began to try and creep back into my head and I don't want it back. I am so easily reminded of it through music and film an even my own thoughts wander back. Every time it comes into my thoughts I get instantly down. I don't really have a special interest at the moment- just an interest that's kind of at a background level and so when I get down I get into a moment when I've got nothing to bring myself back up.
I don't know what to do, I don't want to go back into my old interest and I'm not really that sure why I just feel it is time to move on. I know that most people say an interest will die if you leave it and don't feed it for long enough but what is long enough? Will it be months?
It's been at least a month already and I am really suffering from the pressure, getting constant headaches and sharp pains in other parts of my body because I am under so much stress.
I just need to know what to do! I think the very best way to explain what it feels like is like a person bein treated badly by a boy/girlfriend but the person still loves them and can't stop thinking about them even though they know it was doing them harm.
Whichever way it can be related to I'd love some help

What type of special interest is/was this? Is it something that can actually be harmful to you? If not and you just want to get rid of it I think it might be best to just accept it, indulge in it a little, let yourself think about it, and let it fizzle out in its own time. Something new will come along that you fancy eventually.

Yes I can relate...I had an obsession with a particular culture and certain people from that culture which I really wanted to go away and I had to eventually just accept it and it did go away on its own and I became obsessed with other things, hence the advice I gave.