Do you ever get annoyed when you get a song stuck in your head that just won’t get out? Lucky for you, this probably only lasts a few hours to a few days. A woman has been suffering this for three years!
Susan Root is a 63-year-old custodian in the United Kingdom who got the song “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window” stuck in her head three years ago and is still tormented by the ditty today! “It’s like having a radio that you just can’t turn off,” Root described adding that other equally annoying tunes like “Happy Birthday” and “Auld Lang Syne” also occasionally get stuck, but that “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window” is the most persistent.
What Root suffers from is an actual rare disorder called “musical hallucination” which is described by the British Tinnitus Association as “short fragments of simple melodies” that sound like real music is being played when there clearly isn’t. The songs that get stuck aren’t random, but instead, tend to be songs that the person heard a lot when they were younger.
Root has been given a hearing aid to help alleviate the symptoms since she admitted that the songs often drown out the sound of her husband talking, but the aid has not seemed to help. “I’ve come to accept that I’m probably going to be stuck with this hellish condition for the rest of my life,” she declared.
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