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25 Feb 2016, 7:18 pm

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Ever get stuck on a word and it loops to the point it loses any validity, 'sounds' strange in your head or just a silly collection of vowels and consonants?


All the time, and half the time the word is incredibly profane. Not sure what that means.
It means they're the most fun to play with in your head :) Just like learning a new language...learn the fun body parts and bad words. :)


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25 Feb 2016, 7:27 pm

Or better yet, repeat benign lyrics in a conversational tone. It freaks people out. I used to do that with songs that played on the radio when I was working at Wawa (convenience store).


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25 Feb 2016, 9:04 pm

I have music going in my head the entire time I'm awake, and sometimes when I sleep. I'm used to it so it's not too bad (I've got Alison Kraus going right now), unless I hear some really annoying song and then it gets stuck on a loop--commercial jingles, bad 70s disco, and TV show theme songs are really bad for this. I've forbidden my wife from mentioning certain bands that are especially bad.

What's worse is obsessing over some unpleasant recent memory, going over what I should have said, and what terrible disaster may come of it. Often times the imagined future disaster gets worse every time I think about it.


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01 Mar 2016, 5:32 pm

GodzillaWoman wrote:
I have music going in my head the entire time I'm awake, and sometimes when I sleep. I'm used to it so it's not too bad . . . unless I hear some really annoying song and then it gets stuck on a loop--commercial jingles, bad 70s disco, and TV show theme songs are really bad for this. I've forbidden my wife from mentioning certain bands that are especially bad.


Me too, for certain. I woke up with Love, Crucified, Arose in my head this morning. So the first thing I did when I logged in to the computer was to ask youtube for a Michael Card playlist.
Back to Skillet now, though, it's becoming a bit of a Special Interest level obsession...sadly NThubby doesn't like Skillet. :(

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What's worse is obsessing over some unpleasant recent memory, going over what I should have said, and what terrible disaster may come of it. Often times the imagined future disaster gets worse every time I think about it.


Oh, yeah. Every argument with NThubby I've ever had, every disagreement with a co-worker, every reprimand--no matter how minimal--from the supervisor or manager, every comment I didn't know was a tease or a bullying moment...etc...


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01 Mar 2016, 7:48 pm

Oh, yeah. The replay of every social situation to dissect what I could have done wrong is horrible. I have struggled to figure out if I was introverted or extroverted. I have discovered that I'm extroverted but the extreme anxiety from analyzing everything I have or could have done wrong during a social gathering. That part is absolutely exhausting.


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01 Mar 2016, 7:55 pm

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Oh, yeah. The replay of every social situation to dissect what I could have done wrong is horrible. I have struggled to figure out if I was introverted or extroverted. I have discovered that I'm extroverted but the extreme anxiety from analyzing everything I have or could have done wrong during a social gathering. That part is absolutely exhausting.


It really is awful isn't it.
I can't remember most things from day to day, but every damn social screw up, it's all stored in there.
Available 24/7 to smash myself over the head with.