So I've been struggling with anxiety for about 8 months now, it all started back at the beginning of my school year in 2016, when I began to worry about songs in my head, and the next day I got a song stuck in my head for the entire day!! This was the first time it happened to me, and I couldn't stop worrying about it being there forever... It did get out of my head thankfully the next day. But, two months later, riding my bus to school, another horrifying thought popped into my head, about controlling my breathing. I began to worry about this issue, and later came to realize it was sensory motor obsession, and thankfully overcame this in about 3 months of worrying. Fast foward 2 months of general worry free life, I began having songs in my head for the first half of my school day, then they would leave and I would forget about them. But, it slowly progressed to where I worry about songs in my head, whenever I'm not distracted ie. in school, it's not so much they play 24/7, and it's not auditory hallucinations, just like singing a song, and it gets stuck, but thats what I worry about... It getting stuck, it doesn't bother me so much with rap songs, as much as singing. Please provide any advice whatsoever, and if it is helpful, my parents are currently going through a divorce, which would increase anxiety in my life? And I am fourteen years old...
Anxiety can cause a lot of changes in thought patterns in process. One question to ask yourself is, do you have an actual song stuck in your head or do you have a fear of having a song stuck in your head? If the second choice, that is very common anxious thought, where somebody worries about having a thought or worries about having a fear more than they actually have the thought or fear, or in your case, song stuck in the head.
It's defenetly the second one, but is there a way to fix this, and it doesn't have to be an easy fix...
Great. Recognizing that you have a fear of an unknown event is an important step. You must accept that you are afraid of a thought. Once you accept that, you then need to learn to view your thoughts and fears as just clouds passing over head. They can only bother you if you give them attention, give them power and let them bother you. This is easier said than done, but it is true.