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I find it very hard to control my thoughts, and repetitive thinking is a huge obstacle in allowing me to enjoy life-- everything is going swimmingly but i keep having to work through certain thoughts (P.S: these are concerns of mine, somewhat eccentric to others but NOT classically OCD type), and they are always the same ones. suddenly X will remind me of Y which will remind me of Z-- but it's almost an All Roads Lead to Rome thing and its quite exhausting trying to steer my thinking. its always lurking somewhere and i dread it when it surfaces.
anyone else commiserating?

I think about my obsessions-Russia, music, art, KBABZ, and it gets in the way with my schoolwork. I don't think about it because I feel anxious if I don't, I think about it because I love them.

Yeah I do that, it's annoying.

I have thoughts like those.

Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...Can't sleep, the clown'll eat me...

Then I try to relate things to my obsessions: In English, we're learning about the Holocaust, so I think,'Hitler invaded Russia'. Or 'They put Poles in concentration camps; Poland is next to Russia' and so on.

I have a tendency to say the same phrase over and over again, until I find a new phrase or word to say.

I get Final Fantasy battle music stuck in my head. I'm playing FFIV on my DS right now. I'm planning on getting FFIII for DS.

I tend to listen to the same songs over and over.. I think I do it more often when I feel really crappy.

for most of the replies, no i dont mean obsessing over obsessions, but rather unwanted thoughts that keep compulsively playing themselves over and over to the extent that it affects your daily moods quite a bit.

I have this problem both over obsessions and just intrusive thoughts. I will also get a song in my head for days or weeks at a time. :S

I think about my cats and Roger Bannister quite a bit. I will think of my favorite lines from tthe movie Four Minutes.

If find that the phrase "I have to get ___ done today" or "What do I have to do?" pops into my head far too often. In the shower. On the way to work. At my desk. On the way home from work, etc. It's usually followed by: "And then I have to do this. And then this too. " And then I spend more time than I should sorting out how I'm going to accomplish those things. This will happen even after I'm perfectly clear on what I have to do and how I'm going to do it. It can be annoying.

I do this alot. It usually has an adverse effect. Some times I do it when I am trying to figure something out. Like social situations.