I know to most this probably wouldn’t make much since, but I use iTunes/my ipod as my most used method of playing my owned music, they have a feature in the program that lets you see when you last played an album and how many times you’ve listened any given song. I get highly annoyed when a single song is played and often find myself listening to the whole album even if I don’t really want to just to keep the play counts equal or to have the whole album show up as recently played. It just bugs the hell out of me when there is only one track listed as played in an album.
The voices in my head are telling me its wrong and I should listen to the whole album to prove I really like the artist, even though I don’t really care too hear the full album. Would anyone classify this under OCD or part of my schizophrenic delusional thinking. I’ve never been officially diagnosed with OCD but I think I have tendencies leaning very strongly towards it. Should I just turn off the features to track last played and play counts if they bother me that bad?
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try and just listen to one song…and push your boundaries.
your voices are just playing with you…and they are wrong.
try and change the way you think about it, even listening to one song shows your appreciation of the artist.
you can do this.
take care
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I forgot about how they say I should listen from the artists first released album and work up through their progressing years…Like say I wanted to listen to…I don’t know Michael Jackson (I’m listening to him right now). they said I should listen to Thriller to Bad…on up…when all I wanted to listen to was the song Scream…
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to me it sounds ocd, i am doing ocd therapy with my cbt, it is lessening.
but it is lessening because i am slowly confronting my negative thought patterns concerning my obsessive behavoiur.
you can do this , you are brave, but try and i know it is hard, but try and just listen to the track you want, nothing else.
nothing bad will happen to you, your voices are just playing with you .
my voices used to do this, now it is just my own thought patterns…which i am changing.
remember nothing will happen to you, nothing can harm you.
take care
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the biggest help I think for me right now would be shutting off the feature that lets me track how many times I listen to a song or when the last time I listened to the whole album…I don’t know why but part of me wants to be able to see that, but then it’s causing me all these mental stress problems it’s not worth it…thanks @darksith
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then just shut off the feature…that is a victory for you, in itself.
that way you don’t have to check or listen to the voices as much.
take care
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I changed tracks to a completely different song forcing myself not to return to the original cd or listen to this whole CD I’m currently listening to…it’s a bit more harder than it sounds though. But I’m going to try.
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good on you, you can do this…it is hard i know, but you are brave.
don’t give up or give in to it.
take care
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I haven’t listened to my iPod in along time but maybe try putting the songs that you want to listen to in a favorite play list. That way you only see them if you only allow yourself to look at that list. May partially appease the OCD as the view count should remain the same for each song if you only play favorites, not on shuffle.
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Well I listened to the songs I wanted last night, without listening to the full album but parts of me today want to appease the voices and listen to the full albums even though I don’t want to. I have a lot of noise in my head right now, it’s like someone has a TV on in my brain is continuously hitting the change channel button so it’s not really coherent but still very distracting…
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good on you for listening to the songs you wanted to.
i know it is hard but the voices are just playing with you, don’t give into them.
you can do this you are brave and strong…
i have this saying on a magnet on my fridge to remind me ;
always remember you are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
smarter than you think.
take care
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Yeah, I’d do that. I take Luvox for some OCDish issues I have. I get similar hangups and when I do I try to avoid situations that bring them on.
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How do you get diagnosed with OCD? I’ve never been officially diagnosed with it but I think I do have some strong tendencies towards the disorder.
Thank you, that’s always nice to hear from someone that’s not my parents…(can’t always tell if they’re saying it because they’re my parents, or if they believe it…)
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Fun fact related to individual songs online:
Pink Floyd won a lawsuit saying their albums must be sold whole, no songs can be purchased individually. They say buying only one song ruins the artistic expression of the album as a whole.
So there’s that…oh, and a founding member of Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett) had SZ. To that I say “Shine on you crazy diamond.”
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