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Hello- I've been put under the hands of my generic University's Counseling Center, who had diagnosed me with ADHD and put me on an entire string of medications- Ritalin, Ritalin LA, Concerta, Adderall, Wellbutrin, Trileptal, Risperdal....and nothing has done a thing. It has been like taking sugar pills, even when I take a 20 mg dose of the Ritalin.  Or else, the meds work great for a day or so, but my brain finds a way to fight them off.

A problem that has arisen is that I have developed a "radio" in my head.  I get songs- any song whatsoever- stuck in my head.  The strange part is that the songs play out in their entirety even when I only listened to the song once in my entire life, or heard the song ten years ago.  And I will hear the singer's voices, their pitch, their tones, the background effects, each beat, each chord, in perfect replication of the actual song. 

The "Radio" inside my head really gets turned on when I am trying to concentrate or taking an exam- it really goes off during an exam- and the song either plays over and over again, or else moves onto another obscure songs. 

What sort of songs?  Everything from music that was sung to me as a child, to music from a television show that I watched fifteen years ago, or songs I heard on the radio once in my life, and complex classical concertos (Palestrina motets, Maurice Ravel, Debussy, Mozart....basically every great composer that I ever listened to makes an apperance just once.)

This drives me ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. It makes me extremely depressed when I try to "shut it off" and find that this is an impossibility.

I talked of it to my university psychiatrist, who told me the Risperdal would help. So far, it has done ABSOLUTELY nothing.

I'm at the point of desperation, and I need to know what is causing this and how it can be fixed.

 

 Have you tried singing them, maybe they'll actually help you focus.  My daughter has pretty severe Add and she gets those same "singy" thoughts in her head too.  She's in third grade now, but has had them since first grade.  She sings them or humms them and the teacher has just gotten used to the music, her teacher this year has even had some jam sessions in class-on her behalf.

Sorry for the delayed response.
I've always had that problem(music in my head). It's cronic but not omnipresent. Your problem when  taking tests  is very familiar to me. Its worst with problems that require visualization  . You have to aproach them without verbal reasoning.Words get your thoughts flowing,one word suggests another creating a momentum. When you have to aproach a question without words there's nothing in your minds ear to compete with the extraneous noise,chater, and or music  in your head.
 In recent years(i'm 50), I even speculated that without this distracting music, my a.d.d., wouldn't be much of a problem , music has far more coherence than speech. One or two notes bring on a whole melody. Also how much of our mental energy and attention are we using to create this music?
I can stop the music with extreme concentration , but how long can I keep that up.Maybe part of the power of this thing over me is due to long habit and if I dedicate  myself to it for some time I could break the habit. Maybe it's something I developed to escape from reality during a humiliating childhood.Out of space