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hearing repeat sounds/songs in my head

I keep hearing repeat songs in my head...I do not hear voices only songs.  I suffer from extreme anxiety and depression am on Lorazepam and several homeopathic remedies.  I was put on several anti depressants for a period of one year with severe side effects.  I am now hyper sensitive to medications.
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I experience this. if my mind was idle the song is always plays in my mind , I try to listened to other song but the song that plays in my mind is the old one. I'm a Filipino 20 years old.  Sometimes i feel worried but ill do some things  like watching funny videos, play some games, and the other thing i always say in my mind repeatedly the word "Jesus Name" for me it works. I don't know if this syndrome go away in my mind. I do for now is to think positive and meditate.
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I experience this. if my mind was idle the song is always plays in my mind , I try to listened to other song but the song that plays in my mind is the old one. I'm a Filipino 20 years old.  Sometimes i feel worried but ill do some things  like watching funny videos, play some games, and the other thing i always say in my mind repeatedly the word "Jesus Name" for me it works. I don't know if this syndrome go away in my mind. I do for now is to think positive and meditate.
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My problem started a few weeks ago with the stuttering , my b/p was 165/110 I was feeling bad.  Went to the hospital and was given pressure medicine.  Then I woke up and noticed my thinking process was delayed, then the repeating of a few songs over  and over again in my head.  Only the chorus of the  3 songs would repeat themselves in my head.  I thought it was from the anxiety attacks I was having because I'm very stressed and depressed already.  She prescribed Vistaril which calmed me down a lot.    I went to a neurologist and told him my symptoms, he said by my pressure being high it caused my brain to swell and that's why i feel the way I do.   Got an MRI everything looked good he said that once my pressure stabilizes I should be back to normal.  I'm scared that this will never leave me!! If anyone out there was able to get rid of this please let me know!!! Thanks!!!
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Thank you SO much to all who have posted here.  I have been hearing songs in my head since I was a little girl, at least three years old is my first memory of having songs repeating in my mind.  For the past 6 or 7 years I often have TWO songs playing at the same time in my head.  It makes it very difficult to focus sometimes.  I lose things, forget things, am absent minded.  When I get to know someone and explain that I am not an idiot, but actually am very distracted by the music playing in my head at all times, they generally scoop up their children and back away from me slowly towards the closest exit.  Okay, I am exaggerating, but when you tell someone, "Ugh this tune won't leave my mind" they generally reply, "Oh that happens to me all of the time."  But when you admit you often wake up with loud music playing in your head, that sounds like it is actually playing in the room, like a radio in your ear.  Or that in your waking hours you often have two songs playing simultaneously and overlapping, they look at you like... maybe they are a little bit afraid of how insane you might be. If I were a song writer, or a musician, I think maybe this wouldn't bother me so much, maybe I would have an outlet.  I think it may be genetic, because my 7 year old son is almost always singing or humming some tune and has been since he was 3.  But he says there is only ONE song at time in his head, thank goodness! And he does not hear music when he wakes up like I often do.  My dreams are SO loud sometimes, that when I wake up and my bedroom is quiet, I am so relieved.  But generally very exhausted during the day after such disturbingly loud dreams.  I don't listen to music very often (I did when I was younger like a normal person) and I don't play video games or anything.  I DO take supplements, magnesium, fish oil, multi vitamin, L-theanine.  But I have never been good about ALWAYS taking them religiously, at the same time every day.  I have not now, nor have I ever done any street drugs or abused drugs.  If that helps people to know it's probably not that.   Thank you so much for your input everyone. AND I am glad I am not alone with the music in my head.  I am wondering if anyone else experiences the two songs playing at once problem?  This doesn't just happen when I am alone, going to sleep, or my mind is drifting.  This is constant music, all of the time, even in the background while people are talking, I am having a conversation, or even when I am trying to concentrate (and often succeeding in concentrating) on a task, or writing, reading, etc.  Sometimes it is really annoying, I have been functioning with the problem for most of my life, but sometimes it really gets in the way of focus and happiness.  The two songs overlapping and the waking from the loud dream, and the music continuing and seeming real is the toughest thing to deal with.
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Try l-theanine.  You can only take two a day.  If the songs keep you up, take one at bedtime saving the other for during the day. L-theanine is an amino acid that helps your mind calm down without any drowsy effect and helps you focus during the day.  Ask you doctor before taking it to see if its okay to take with your medications.  Good luck
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Try l-theanine.  You can only take two a day.  If the songs keep you up, take one at bedtime saving the other for during the day. L-theanine is an amino acid that helps your mind calm down without any drowsy effect and helps you focus during the day.  Ask you doctor before taking it to see if its okay to take with your medications.  Good luck
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