Anyone else experience this? Anything help? Distracting songs, specific ambient noises, however absurd the suggestion seems, I’ll try it.  

It’s mostly at night when I’m alone and I’m not super engaged in some activity (like going on old storage scavenger hunts in my crawlspace. There’s so much cool stuff down there). Or writing this post. Sometimes during the day, but it’s not as bad. But nights when I’m just lounging around, doodling, petting the dog, I almost feel like my brain hurts if I don’t respond to the compulsion. The words often revolve around the number 12, the random phrases sometimes said forwards and backwards, sometimes a specific number of repetitions. And occasionally I have to start over if I get a word wrong. I experienced something similar when I was about 10 or so, but it mostly dissipated save for some number-centered activities.

It’s sometimes worse, sometimes gets better. Kinda fluctuates. I have no idea what initiates the periods of “sometimes worse”. Mostly a vent, and also writing this out quiets things down. Well, thanks for stopping by. Good whatever it is in your time zone :)