Word repetition- please help!

[MzPixielated]

Sometimes when I read or hear a word it gets sort of "stuck" in my head and my brain just says it it over and over again.
Usually it's an interesting word but not always. The word at the moment is fibromyalgia (!) it's driving me up the walls.
Why is happening?! How do I make it stop?

It could be one of several things - I get this as a symptom when my own crazy is fairly mild, although in my case it's usually snatches of latin - but apart from being irritating, is it affecting anything in your daily life?

It's a fairly normal mental 'tic' and it's only really a problem when you're sat in the corner rocking back and forth in time to a low, muttered chant of the word.

Otherwise, you've just got particularly irritating version of having tunes stuck in your head.

I think it could be a symptom of anxiety maybe?

Symptom of a number of things, including 'being the kind of person that gets earwormed really badly', of which I know several examples. One of whom is so bad with it he threatens violence against people who whistle/hum/sing/play so much as a bar of The Final Countdown near him. He can have that bad boy echoing round his head for two or three days at a time.

It doesn't affect daily life badly I just want to run away from my head sometimes.

I used to suffer badly with anxiety but I had CBt a couple of years ago and it rarely bothers me these days.

I suffer from depression but I don't think it's linked iyswim.
My physiatrist and physiologist have both thought I may have mild ADHD so maybe it's something to do with that.

The only way I can make it go away for a while is by saying out loud for a while but I don't like do it as I worry what people would think!
Googled earlier and someone said they make it stop by diverting their attention to something else quickly and focusing on something so I will try with that next time it gets too much.

Just don't try the remedy my cousin used to use when he was little. Stripped to his y-fronts and chanted the word while jumping up and down. On the sofa if we let him.

He's working in finance these days, and I reckon that's all you need to know about why the world financial system is so bollocksed.

I just wanted to say thank you Kisser. I read this thread yesterday and I still have The Final Countdown theme tune repeating in my head .

That one is quite bad.

Haha! you evil people I come here to ask for help and you plant more things in my head!

Feeling the need to repeat words or sentences can happen to some people with OCD.