Grandmother 3 years without sleep because of the hallucinations of sound

The song about a small dog sitting on the window of musician Patti Page, titled How Much is that Doggie in the Window , which was a hit song from 1953, did not give a British grandmother a break. retired Susan Ruth has been sleeping for 3 years now. The song all day and night goes on in my head.

Susan complained: "Three years ago, I heard this song and since then it kept sounding in my head without stopping. Sometimes its sound was so loud that I couldn't even hear what my husband said. '.

Susan Ruth

Susan Ruth was a sweeper for a 63-year-old elementary school, who had previously been adhered to by other songs including the National Anthem of the United Kingdom (which he had to listen to in the morning to greet the first flag). week of students). This poor woman has gone through many treatments without results. Doctors have applied every method from taking drugs to special hearing aids to 'expelling' the song from the auditory region on the brain but without success.

Psychologists call this phenomenon a musical hallucination disorder and treat it as a tinnitus. Those who suffer from this are very difficult to distinguish what is real sound from echoes (or music) that only that person hears.

Tinnitus affects 10% of the elderly and 1% of the population suffers from a hallucination of sound, which is never possible. This is the data given by the 'Association of People in the Ear' . One of Oasis's band leaders, Noel Gallagher - formerly a rock singer - recently admitted that he also had the disease.