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Originally Posted by bastetsha
I do it all the time really. Some have lasted months of that certain thing that I am obsessing over. It has not helped in other parts of my life because it will be all that I can think of all day everyday. It really sucks.
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Originally Posted by ECHOES
Yes, thanks for posting about this. I like the calmer in between times 
I do this too, and have learned to look closely at not only what I am focusing on, but also what I am not focusing on... what I am trying to distract myself from, wanting to avoid, etc. |
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Originally Posted by PlatinumHeart
I am totally guilty of that. I am presently in the middle of one. I am on a Lord of the Rings obsession faze. I am looking up all things Lord of the Rings, even joined a forum, that I immediately got bored of and ended coming back to PC. I do understand, and I do it often.
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Originally Posted by optimize990h
Yes, I have this distract me from from doing more important things.
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Yeah, mine really suck too. I go completely bonkers. Like right now I'm having an anime fixation. Before that it was my phobia of sex. Before that I literally got so obsessed with my french horn that my grades dropped and I stopped doing chores. Before that it was personality typing. Before that it was baking (I made so many sweets, I'm surprised I only gained a couple pounds :P). Before that it was improving my complexion (I have terrible acne). Before that it was future financial planning. Before that it was fitness. Et cetera. And some of them seem harmless, but they ARENT HARMLESS. NOT AT ALL. Its getting to the point that I have little normal time in between and the fixations themselves are getting worse. A friend suggested that I might have OCD, but I have almost no obsessive compulsive behaviors! I do have a tremendous skin picking problem, but that's the only one and as far as I know you have to have multiple behaviors to be diagnosed. I don't know what's wrong with me.