OCD and repetitive intrusive thoughts

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Does anyone else suffer from OCD and repetitive intrusive thoughts? Most bothersome of the repetitive thoughts for me are certain songs, just like a 3-5 second clip on loud volume in my head endlessly repeating. It gives me such a headache. I haven't really found a treatment other than replacing one sound with another. Certain songs I just straight out can't listen to or they will torture me for hours. It makes it difficult to sleep too. CBT is great for compulsions but does nothing for this problem.

I don't have OCD as far as I know but I do have intrusive thoughts and actions I have a very strong compulsion to do in response to certain things, to the point I feel mad if I don't act on them. Ie. I have an intrusive thought, obsess, convince myself if I just do this one thing it will get better, do the one thing and temporarily feel almost high, realise I dun goofed and freak out so the cycle can begin again.

My intrusive thoughts are usually either violent or scary though, not sounds. I found talking through them with my therapist really helped but if you are also going through CBT that part of my comment becomes useless. I got taught in therapy to practise stepping outside of myself to observe my thoughts and when I am detached, to imagine it passing as if I'm on a train and it is just a cloud. It helps when my anxiety is at a low level but not at a high one so far I'm afraid. Oh yeah and in case it isn't clear, my compulsions are not violent. I don't know if that's any help sorry.

Yeah I got taught the same thing. I think it helps for thoughts that I am consciously focused on at the front of my mind that I don't want to think about but the music happens in the background of my head whether I observe it or not.

I sometimes get intrusive thoughts about accidentally injuring myself as well but those aren't as frequent and are easier to distract myself from than music is.

I deal with similar issues. My mind rarely holds an opinion or an idea for a long period of time before it's replaced by something else before I'm aware of it. For instance, I'm currently in college, and I can never seem to hold on to an idea of what I want to do as a career. I also don't know much about myself either. Most of my beliefs and ideals are constantly under attack by my own intrusive thoughts based on outside influences.

”Most bothersome of the repetitive thoughts for me are certain songs, just like a 3-5 second clip on loud volume in my head endlessly repeating.”

Does the OCD serve as a mechanism?or is it a result of coping with ASD?Perhaps a weird brain function.

I don't really know. It certainly doesn't provide me any relief like other repetitive verbal stims I use in my head, those I have control over.

I have almost constant repetition going on in my mind, sometimes part of a song, sometimes part of a phrase I heard or thought. Some dumb thing or other just repeats like a stuck record nearly all the time, unless I'm really focused on a task. Sometimes I'll even discover I've kind of spaced out and was whispering something over and over, although that doesn't happen as often now as it did when I was a kid.

Noca did you ever figure it out?

Nope, I guess it's just how my brain is wired.

I have had that problem since I was 15

I wonder if it is a type of tic.

I find that I may like a certain song. And I will play the song over and over again for hours at a time. It soothes me. But it drives everyone else crazy. In general tics are a stress reliever. When I was young and dreaming was more common, I would dream the same dream over and over again at night for months on end. Again I saw it as a stress reliever.

In dreaming you can break the bonds of reality and experiment with things that are generally off limits. Daydreaming is a similar mechanism.

But if the repetitive intrusive thoughts go against your core, perhaps it is best just to banish them. Lock them up and throw away the key.