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Feb 28, 2009, 10:13 AM
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For me...............Ones inability to divide ones attention....as compared to udivided attention?????????
..........to the near point.......or to the point of self-destruction.......(feeling like crap?) Last edited by Anonymous37819; Feb 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM. Reason: forgot question....a little obsessed |
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Feb 28, 2009, 12:05 PM
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what's going on? feel like talking about it?
as for obsession....can break the cycle by doing something physical or that distracts you....take it slow and easy...are you thinking about d or a???
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Feb 28, 2009, 07:57 PM
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I think undivided attention is more "focus" and is deliberate. If you don't want or like "it" then it's obsession or fixation rather than focus :-)
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ~ Elie Wiesel I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films. ~ Jacqueline Bisset Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ~ Norman Mailer Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. ~ Jacques Lacan
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Mar 01, 2009, 08:23 PM
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(((Sparrowstail)))) i know these past few days have been so hard for you....
obsession is like being infatuated with something? it consumes you? you are, like others said.. fixated on it.... things, remind you of it.... you may be able to escape for awhile but are drawn back? each time more intensely and that is not healthy .... so.... you need relaxation techniques... you need to take proactive action in your own best interest for good health... you need to define the problem as clear as able... go for totality.... know what you are afraid of or obsessed over is an object place or thing and that you can design a safe lifestyle to co-exist with the obsession ... in time you can overcome the obsession |
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Mar 02, 2009, 10:50 AM
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In reply...........
madisgram...... baseline....down deep....when I sit still, ask inside and wait for an answer after praying my ***** off...sleep on it....hurt a little bit.....it comes back infatuation with alcohol............I may not be able to stop that little monster, but I can be aware when he gets to peekin....then let God take over.....I just moved and the food store is ten miles away, but the liquor store is right across the street......LITERALLY.......... over the years, I have recieved Gods' gift of awareness and it is a gift to be practiced everyday. the goal of this post(get it, goal post, Lol,) I feel has been reached, which is to not have these thoughts turn into an obsession or "distortion of values". *(BB,pg.129). Perna...... Your reply is exactly what I needed....what lies within the confines of reality are the two sides to everything....distortion and clarity....with jacqueline bissets distortion between love and obsession...it helped me to re-gain my own clarity...to define again....the difference between obsession and focus....between....distortion and clarity....dillusion and reality....infatuation and undivided attention...... and with these epigrams, came also the trickery that lies within obsession...the manifestation of obsession where I would least expect...and call it something like love.... ....and nowheretorun.... aint that martha and the vendells? no were to hide...baby.... so solution orientated...and so...so....appreciative.......... inwhich brings me back to right here and right now....... I have just become aware of a new catagory of triggers that lay within music....oh my goodness gracious....I love music and am actually a musician/songwriter...that has not played or practised for thirty some years....... ....and yes.....these past few days have been seriously difficult....a whole new world..........again......... thanx yall...............ST *alcoholics anonymous...............or big book |
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Mar 02, 2009, 06:49 PM
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keep posting sparrow... talking about our feelings is how to get it out there.. music was something i needed to learn to re-appreciate also... i remember many years ago in a treatment center for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts that a man told me the same thing about starting his life over again like he was a baby, needing to re-learn everything, even the way he listened to music.. it always kind of stayed with me and when i hit my late 30's i did the same thing.. for awhile i listened to no music at all because i believed that some kinds contained dark messages but as i learned to appreciate it again i found that there is more than meets the ear and if i listen very well i can almost always find something positive to say about all music styles..
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