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Aibu to ask about the constant music in my head 😫

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AlanPartridgesSausageSandwich · 19/11/2019 09:33

Ever since I can remember I have suffered with intrusive thoughts, recently these focused on my relationship (Will he leave me? Does he really love me? Do I even love him?) or they would be random (my dog/son being hit by a truck)
About a month ago these incessant thoughts became too much for me and I began having extreme anxiety and panic attacks complete with feelings of utter doom and the feeling I would never feel sane again.

After a particularly trying day of panic my partner arranged a doctors appointment for me in which the GP prescribed 50mg of Sertraline and 20mg of propranolol. The side effects of the sertraline were hard going for the first two weeks, I had heightened anxiety, insomnia, suppressed appetite and I became such an Olympic yawner that I swear my jaw touched the floor every time.
Going into the third week these things started to lift and the intrusive thoughts, although still there, were not so debilitating to me.

Now I find I have songs playing in my head constantly from when I wake up to when I go to bed. All different songs, easily triggered by hearing words or phrases ( I.e saw the word Holy and now have Holy Diver by Ronnie James fucking Dio stuck in my head)

My partner thinks this could be normal as he has lots of music going through his mind, what with him being a musician and all.
This is a very new thing for me though and it's driving me batty.
Is this something to worry about or is this my new normal??
Has anyone else experienced something similar?
Thanks in advance and Yay, this is my first ever mumsnet post ( finally driven to posting by the music!) smile
I have also posted this in mental health, I hope that's OK.

OP posts:
Tolleshunt · 22/11/2019 07:20

OP, i’m Really sorry, I promised to come back with a metacognitive attention training audio, but the one I used is not available anymore, and I haven’t found another yet that is similar enough. I will have another dig around and come back to you.

Tumbleweed101 · 22/11/2019 08:46

I don’t get this unless we’ve been practicing a song over and over at the nursery (ie for a Xmas play, music morning) and then those songs will be on loop for a few weeks lol. I think i would find it annoying. I do get a lot of brain ‘chatter’ though instead. When I’m writing it is healthy next scene of the story chatter but when I’m not writing it can be a bit negative and focus on real life stuff.

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