Songs That Cause Panic and/or Intrusive Thoughts

Question about OCD

Does anyone have one song that they have a bad connection to?
For me it’s “Wildest Dreams” by Taylor Swift. Anytime I hear it, even just writing it out has triggered the panic it instilled in me. I’ve been trying to slowly get over it, but it just sets me in such a strange panic and feeling all over my body, starting at my temples, down my ears, to my shoulders, and straight to my chest where I feel the anxious tightness.
I know when it started, I heard it the morning of what was soon to be my first breakup the song played on the local radio station on the way to school and the lyrics “nothing lasts forever.” Reverberated in my brain. Over and over, all day. Until I got the text (yes text) saying “we’re done.”
This has now spiraled in my mind, and since I have the type of OCD that causes me to check every lock, every window, and my alarms 100x before bed. It has stuck with me.
Whenever I hear that song I have the sense of “impending doom” as I call it.

Now the question is:
Does anyone else have something like this? Please share, so I feel less alone.

Posted Jun 11, 2026, 2:44 AM UTC

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