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Old 11-29-2011, 05:34 PM
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The repeating ding dong just started.

I have had problems with looping for over 12 years. I can get the most mundane things stuck in my head. A license plate number, the spelling of a word, a line from a sing, can get stuck and g continue looping in my head for hours or even days. I take maximum dose paroxetine (Paxil) 60mgs to reduce the frequency of this. It makes a big difference. It reduces the looping to a level that I can tolerate.

Sometimes, I will get stuck with a bit of a song in a mode that I call Jukebox. I can switch songs to avoid the fatigue of the same song for hours. The song I switch to will loop until I switch (Jukebox) again.

I know that the brain identifies sounds by comparing them to a stored index of sounds. It is like that stored index of ding dong is turned on and left repeating for 10 seconds. The ding dong will keep repeating if the original bell like sound continues. It is like the ding sound from TV or such gets interpreted as ding dong.

Weird symptom.
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