Intrusive music

[lcfrogs]

My therapist thinks that I either have OCD or Major Depressive Disorder with Psychotic Features. Sometimes a symptom of MDD Psychosis can include OCD thoughts and behaviors. She is wondering if it is MDD Psychosis because my most prominent symptom is "intrusive music," and my compulsion is done to neutralize the anxiety caused by the constant songs in my head that make me fear that I am going crazy. I am exhibiting some other unrelated OCD symptoms, but because the intrusive music is my most prominent symptom (which is not typical with OCD), she is wondering if it is not OCD but something else.

Anyway, I have done a lot of research on intrusive music and it is very common with people who have OCD. So if you are interested or feel like this sounds familiar, read this article if you haven't already and please share with me your experience with it:

http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20010605/msgs/65468.html

My therapist is also wondering if my problem is actually MDD Psychosis because my intrusive music symptoms also do not completely fit with typical OCD intrusive music. Most of the constant music I hear in my head are songs that do not exist anywhere but in my head, they are short and sometimes chaotic tunes my brain created that repeat really fast over and over again. However, "real songs" also will easily get stuck in my head for days. The intrusive music has been so bad for me that it has been debilitating and I have been unable to come on this forum recently.

Anyway, please tell me what you think!

[marc]

I read the article and even though I am not a physician, I would say that you don't fit the
symptoms of being psychotic in the way you are thinking.

[lcfrogs]

I read the article and even though I am not a physician, I would say that you don't fit the
symptoms of being psychotic in the way you are thinking.

Well, my therapist is mostly concerned because I have also been having hallucinations not related to the intrusive music and sometimes I feel like someone or something is watching me.

[marc]

I know people who are supposedly classified as normal, saying not so common things. For example,
my wife is a pharmacist and the woman that works with her won't get a flu shot because she thinks that
the government has implanted a tracer chip in the flu shot, so they will be able to find information about her.
I hate to put a label on  anyone.