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redrehtac t1_ixj3smv wrote

Reply to comment by KozuBlue in eli5 is there a scientific explanation or reason for intrusive thoughts or call of the void by DapperWheel521

I’m curious about thought looping. I’ve been in therapy and medicated for a while now so the worst intrusive thoughts are gone but I still get thoughts that just loop and loop and loop and some days it feels like it won’t ever stop. I have to have constant noise like a podcast or music in the background most of the time. I’d love to be able to just enjoy silence with out the looping

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Salesopolis t1_ixj7kjr wrote

.... other people don't experience thoughts in the form of loops?

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redrehtac t1_ixj8oa0 wrote

Maybe?? No one has mentioned it to me before so…other than like a song getting stuck in someone’s head? Idk man.

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femmestem t1_ixk4cjx wrote

I used to until I got on OCD meds. It was unsettling how quiet my brain has been. I'm now baffled as to how thinking happens when I can't hear myself think anymore.

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septembersoul t1_ixkc9dh wrote

>It was unsettling how quiet my brain has been.

May I ask what meds are you on, for how long and how much mg? I started with escitalopram a month and 1/2 ago, seems like I have a long way to go. OCD as well.

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