Musical Hallucinations... Please Help

[Iamsioux]

Hey everyone... Really wanted some advice here as I am way out of my knowledge zone and google doctor is never a good thing.

I also hear music when I am triggered, or overly stressed. My brain plays current radio tunes, it will pick one, it doesn't have to be something I have heard lately, but I do avoid music when I am stressed as my brain will be more likely to start to play a song more loudly if I just heard it.

It is so loud in a continuous loop that I feel like I am going crazy. I wake up with my brain screaming a song, chorus or phrase over and over and over. I have even yelled out loud, "shut up!!" If I can take the time and get the space to calm down, takes several days, it will gradualy decrease and go away.

 

[Philippa]

I think it's really interesting that our brains have an inbuilt coping mechanism for too much stress, as indicated by some posts here. Sound is very healing, and that has been proven scientifically, so the fact that the brain draws on memories of baroque music in times of duress, which calms the brainwaves and causes people to relax...pretty amazing.

 

[Iamsioux]

I wish I could say that the music in my head is healing. For instance now I have had a line of a song running through my head, over and over and over, loudly for about 8 hours, non-stop. I keep saying, "Stop singing, stop singing." But it never stops and won't go away for days. I will wake up, if I go to sleep, at 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning still singing, loudly this same song, over and over. It drives me crazy. I will then get maybe a day of quiet, always on edge for the next round, and boom, as I start to relax my brain another song, for days a non-stop stream.

 

[Philippa]

oh wow, that doesn't sound fun at all. Sorry to hear that. That would drive me crazy if I wanted to get rid of it and it wouldn't leave. I did have that experience once...although there were hallucinogens involved.:D

Does this even carry on while you are trying to sleep?

 

[Iamsioux]

Does this even carry on while you are trying to sleep?

This will go on all night, like a demon loop, there is never even a pause, just la dahhhhh (pretend song chorus), la dahhhh, la,dahhhh, over and over and over for days. It is loud. If I manage to sleep I wake up to this in my head, like it never stopped.

 

[Philippa]

Gosh...that does sound very unusual and not very fun.

Um...is sorry a helpful word here?:eek:

 

[Monty]

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[ChoctawWarrior]

If she is rational about it and knows that it's odd to hear this music playing when it's not, then I'd say it's probably just a psychotic feature of PTSD from the fighting when she was younger- some sort of flashback kind of thing. I mean, it's just one thing, right? It's not like she has every notable symptom of Schizophrenia.

Still, she should get into a therapist AND a psychiatrist, just to check things out and get help for it. Just because it could be something OTHER than Schizophrenia. Plus, you said she's emotional, right? Schizophrenic people usually show very little or no presence of emotion, so I read. Though, yeah- she should REALLY get things checked out by a pro- I'm just giving advice.

 

[ChoctawWarrior]

Oh, and in the above post I was replying to the initial thread poster.....I didn't realize she was on by the time it was posted...Lol

Anyways- hi, lamsioux! Sorry to hear you're going through this. :(