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Originally Posted by athena2011
I have this obsessive tendency but not quite to the same extreme and I (mostly) keep it to myself. I think that getting to the bottom of it is key. It has to go, it interferes with daily life, with relationships, with mood. I don't know what is causing it, I've just come around to the realization that this is one of my major issues. We should be OK to be on our own for a good part of the day without obsessing about others. It's debilitating.
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That's the problem...I can't. (Can't switch off the obsessive tendencies.) I mean, I can be physically alone, but I need to be emotionally "touched" very often. If I've got no one who can make me feel like that - no intense relationships - then I'm emotionally absent from life and feel dead. I can't stand that nothingness - it makes me feel very self-destructive. I live to find people I can love and obsess over, and to find people who can love me (and hopefully obsess over me a little, too). Without them, there is no reason. Nothing else is enough. I can't switch it off.
