So there are many, many ways that my ocd will manifest into my life but the one that has been with me the longest perplexes me. It will hit me at random, maybe something someone says, or something I hear about on tv. All of the sudden, I have to know everything I can possibly know about a topic.

Example: A coworker mentioned in passing that she is Mormon. I ended up spending 3 month studying everything I could get my hands on about Mormonism. I was obsessed with understanding it, knowing about it. I probably read 80 books...at least.

This has happened over and over. Topics that come to mind: yoga, tarot cards, Christianity, Catholicism, vegetarianism, clouds, shoes, vitamins, WWII, Saints, prayer, massage,reiki etc, etc, etc. My former therapist had a theory that this was some kind of coping mechanism but we couldn't figure out what the trigger was...why this keeps happening?

Does anyone have anything like this? I've yet to find any info on this part of my ocd.