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They seem to occur once a week or more in many healthy adults, Dr. Gordon says, and according to research, up to 98% of the Western population have experienced them. What causes earworms?
Researcher Vicky Williamson at Goldsmiths, University of London, found in an uncontrolled study that earworms correlated with music exposure, but could also be triggered by experiences that trigger the memory of a song (involuntary memory) such as seeing a word that reminds one of the song, hearing a few notes from the song, or feeling an emotion one associates with the song.
Don't worry, earworms aren't the newest creepy bug out there -- though they are incredibly annoying. You know when you get a little piece of a song stuck in your head that you just can't shake?
An intrusive thought is an unwelcome, involuntary thought, image, or unpleasant idea that may become an obsession, is upsetting or distressing, and can feel difficult to manage or eliminate.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder affects about 2.3% of people at some point in their lives, while rates during any given year are about 1.2%. [2] [6] More than three million Americans suffer from OCD. [33] According to Mercy, approximately 1 in 40 U.S. adults and 1 in 100 U.S. children have OCD. [34]
OCD caused Shamika Williams to experience invasive thoughts about being contaminated that she threw out her clothes. ERP therapy has helped her regain control. After developing OCD as an adult ...
Plus 30% of people with Tourette's syndrome have clinically diagnosable OCD. Course of illness is another factor that suggests correlation because it has been found that tics displayed in childhood are a predictor of obsessive and compulsive symptoms in late adolescence and early adulthood.
Compulsive decluttering is a type of disorder that is classified within a broad name, obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. Compulsive decluttering is the act of throwing items, or clutter, away, or getting rid of them in an attempt to "clean up" what one with the disorder may think is cluttered.