Originally Posted by Julie Combes

I'm amazed you could go through an entire life with 'singing on the brain'. Have you ever consulted a doctor about it? It's certainly true that it stops when I am doing puzzles, or a game like Scrabble, that involves full attention and thought, but as soon as I stop, it starts up again! Even Beethoven gets to be a bit much on the hundredth repetition! I have asked several doctors about this, including psychiatrists and neurologists but they don't seem to have any idea how to deal with it - short term distractions are fine, but being a retired person with maybe too much down time and too many other health problems (teaching was pretty full time brain work, but no hope of returning to that!) there are long gaps filled with irritating rubbish! I'm working on trying to fill them, but my favorite activity, reading, is limited by headaches......... Thanks for taking the time to respond - let me know if you come up with a great new way of dealing with it!