Recent questions tagged obsession

Description : Do you have any family or friends who are nuts about the Covid?

Last Answer : Kinda me. I am the nuts person to most of my friends and acquaintances. I am the fraidiest of cats. I am vaxxed and boosted and occasionally go to uncrowded restaurants, and sometimes to friends' homes, ... 't discuss it unless asked, but I am a bit startled by just how many are irritated by it.

Description : What are you binging on these days?

Last Answer : The Golden Girls and The Larry Sanders Show. Both hilarious, I can’t believe its taken me so long to finally watch them

Description : What is a positve take from my obession with ability scores in Dunegons and Dragons?

Last Answer : Music link. Baldur’s Gate 2 : Shadows of Amn – Full Original Soundtrack .

Description : Do you think Nabokov's novel Lolita could have got published today?

Last Answer : I can’t imagine it happening. I also can’t imagine Blazing Saddles getting greenlit today.

Description : Eager. Impatient? Micro-managing? I made a financial plan for the next 3 years, and I can not think of anything else.

Last Answer : Sounds like you are finally getting sick of jumping through bs hoops, and getting ready to do what you like and not what you think othets want you to. Time to put away with childish things and take your freedom for being an adult.

Description : Do you keep adding to your list of interests as I do?

Last Answer : I have always hated rap music, but I have found myself listening to a lot of Eminem. I can’t say that I love rap now, but I do appreciate his mastery of the craft. However, I still hate country. ha!

Description : Do you ever go through phases where you have a tendency to listen to the same song over and over again?

Last Answer : answer:Sort of. When I was a teen I’d listen to Donny Osmond and Micheal Jackson obsessively, and cry out my love for them. I do have certain songs that I go look up just to hear them again. But it isn’t the Jackson 5 or the Osmond Brothers any more. More like Stevie Nix and Clarance D’Arby.

Description : What are some songs where, despite the catchy tune, paint a picture of an obsession?

Last Answer : The obvious one. “Every Breath You Take” by The Police

Description : When you wake up in the morning what do you first think about?

Last Answer : It usually depends on if I am in a good place or a bad place emotionally and how much stress there is potentially in the day. Generally, I think of the day ahead, the scheduling and the fun ... back in bed - although at those times the nights are the worst. Occasionally, I think about ask-public.

Description : Which of these should I name if I had them, and what name should I name them?

Last Answer : Name the bacon Tony.

Description : What is the longest continuous period of time that you sat at a computer or other device and interacted with Fluther?

Last Answer : Maybe a couple of hours in the early morning or evening. If I’m home I might pop in a few times to see what’s up, otherwise my most active times are the above.

Description : Which books have you literally read to pieces?

Last Answer : My copy of Paradise Lost is starting to fall apart.

Description : What is your personal clue that you are spending too much time here?

Last Answer : You tell yourself you’re going to bed at 11pm and then find that you’re still up at 4am reading through questions and refreshing the page hoping that someone will post something new…

Description : What is the reason and experience of obsessing over a person?

Last Answer : I don’t think it’s something that someone chooses. It’s more like they feel they can’t help themselves.

Description : Where can I go to feed my obession with free personality and character selection tests?

Last Answer : OkCupid has tons of personality tests. Some serious, some silly, a lot of them fun.

Description : Is it obsessive compulsive for a person that lives alone to label storage bins?

Last Answer : answer:I also think it’s just being neat and tidy. Also, labels are cool. Now, if you start writing your name on each item in the container, you might have a problem.

Description : How far would you go for chocolate?

Last Answer : Hate to break it to you, but I’m actually not a fan of chocolate.

Description : Do you remember any of the things you were fascinated with as a child?

Last Answer : Discovering that those black marks were words and I could read them.

Description : What is the obsession with tanning?

Last Answer : They worship at the altar of oompah-loompah, brown nosers incorporated.

Description : Do you have a favourite natural material? (details inside).

Last Answer : I love glass. Especially beveled or textured glass.

Description : Could an obsession with correcting others stem from a habit of defending a religion?

Last Answer : It sounds to me like you’ve had an epiphany and realized this all on your own. You got to remember everyone has their own choice of perception to an agreed reality. Live your life, drop your defensive feelings, you have nothing to prove to anyone.

Description : When do habits turn into obsessions? How does one stop?

Last Answer : answer:Obsessions are thoughts, compulsions are actions. I am going to assume you are talking about being compulsive, or obsessive and compulsive. Depends on the thing. Some suggestions are: Replace the unwanted ... do the action and why, and deal with what feelings are driving you to the activity.

Description : Have you seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

Last Answer : I actually have not. But I’m not a fan of musicals.

Description : If you could have the voice of any person, living or deceased, whose voice would you want to have as your own?

Last Answer : Morgan Freeman.

Description : Do I have OCD?

Last Answer : answer:Yes, a little OCD, and a little paranoid. Thinking about thesenthings a little tokeep yourself safe and healthy is ok, but your thought process (obsession) amd habits (compulsion) are a little extreme. ... you feel out of control. Also, do not watch the local news, or scary or violent movies.

Description : How do you get over an obsession crush?

Last Answer : For me in the past, it took a tremendous amount of will power to do the opposite, I want to talk to her and I force myself not to. After a while it became much easier until it just no longer pops into my head or becomes a simple matter to shrug off.

Description : Is it weird to want to live in another era?

Last Answer : answer:Maybe you did live in that era. Maybe you are on life 7, 9, or 14. ;-) Get a past life reading sometime, if for nothing else but the amusement factor. You never know. I have always been highly ... shop from the 20's & 30's, or collect old radios, or some other such hobby as time goes on.

Description : Would you say that she has a ‘crush’ or that she’s ‘obsessed’?

Last Answer : It is really difficult to say without really knowing your daughter’s personality. You bring up the most important things, however, and that is that she is not neglecting her real social life or her schoolwork in order to focus on this celebrity. I wouldn’t panic, yet, personally.

Description : Do you think that women are too hard on themselves?

Last Answer : I think some women are too hard on other women. There is no such thing as a perfect person. I don’t obsess with the way I look. What’s most important for me is that I feel healthy.

Description : When does the desire to look good become narcissism?

Last Answer : answer:When looking good is all you can think about. When you can’t walk past a mirror without checking yourself out. (BTW, that’s still not narcissism, which is more than about looking good.)

Description : What's your latest obsession?

Last Answer : Anxiety and stress have been controlling my life the past few days and I’d give almost anything to get rid of both of them immediately.

Description : If love occurs during the context of a mental disturbance, is it really love?

Last Answer : Since there was never a relationship, does it matter?

Description : What do you obsessionally collect?

Last Answer : answer:Just a few years back, I might have said this was fabric. I'm a quilter - and stash building is a never-ending activity. I learned back when I started quilting (about a decade ago) ... in Japan)..sometimes scenery..but we do grab photos wherever we got that we find suitable for framing.

Description : What is our obsession with music?

Last Answer : answer:No, on ever running out of music. I think there are infinite variations on notes and note combination. As to why we like music, I think it is because music is a mathematical expression, which our brains are hardwired to find pleasing.

Description : Does everyone have O.C.D.?

Last Answer : Always blow into a cup before pouring liquids into it.

Description : Anybody out there thought that they had a great invention?

Last Answer : Years ago when I baked cakes for extra money, I came up with a invention that I felt would make assembling cakes on cake boards easier. I went as far as going to one of those invent-help programs I ... unfortunately they wanted more money (that I didn't have) to patent it. Oh! Welcome to ask-public

Description : Can't get enough of a song, lately?

Last Answer : I bet she was/is a freak in the sack.

Description : What video game are you currently obsessed with?

Last Answer : I have recently discovered the game Cat Physics for the iPhone. It is insanely addictive and I am constantly trying to get higher scores in each level. There’s a world-wide leader board online that I try to get higher and higher on as well.

Description : What is your newest, most recent addiction/fixation/obsession?

Last Answer : I am into nachos lately and Mike’s Hard Lemonade.

Description : Is it possible to have too many books?

Last Answer : answer:Yeah, I have that dilemma. My solution? Get mentally ill and stop reading. I haven’t read a novel in a year, I think, and I’ve only read about three or four in the last three years. Here’s another solution—instead of reading, ask-public!

Description : Do I have an OCD?

Last Answer : I don’t think it’s helpful to ask people for a diagnosis over the Internet. It may not even be helpful in real life. If these things interfere with your pleasure in life, you can get help with this kind of issue, even if it doesn’t have a name.

Description : Are you obsessed with anyone?

Last Answer : Just a bit.

Description : Stopping obsessive thoughts about fiances past lovers?

Last Answer : answer:Welcome to Fluther. Have you had past lovers? Do you feel that your fiance has visions of you with them? First, you have to recognize that this is about you, not your fiance. It is a self- ... out onto your fiance. If you don't take care of this, you will wind up ruining the relationship.

Description : Have you ever had a thought which kept sticking in your mind and bothering you, and you found it difficult to let go? How did you deal with it, and did the annoying thought finally go away?

Last Answer : There is a memory or two that I try to push back. I used to dwell on it everyday. Months would pass & the thought would drift in & out of consciousness. It's been 4 years now & the thought almost ... a question that digs up painful memories. :) I'm teasing. Really, it's just a matter of time.

Description : What's the best technique for getting rid of an earworm?

Last Answer : Watch Mama Mia and your earworm will be replaced by any of several songs by Abba.

Description : How do you, personally, decide where the boundary between healthy and obsessive is?

Last Answer : For there to be a diagnosis of OCD, the individual has to be obsessing in order to prevent or mitigate anxiety about unrealistic fears, and the individual must know that the fears are unrealistic ... , like superstitions, or getting songs stuck in your head, or being worried about the future.

Description : Do obsessive thoughts or actions follow with clinical depression or bi-polar disorder?

Last Answer : obssessing and compulsing are actually two different things. obssesing is being unable to stop thinking about thinking about whatever. complusing is that actual disease part - you do something compulsively over and ... your ability to funciton in day-to-day life, that's the disease known as OCD.

Description : Am I right to be disturbed by this woman? What action should I take now?

Last Answer : You just need to keep telling her off until she gets it. Also, maybe tell her how she comes off. Tell her she seems to be way too obsessed with guys and needs to tone it down a bit, especially ... tell your bf he has to do something. Maybe she just needs him to set her straight before she'll stop.

Description : Is it good to have obsessions?

Last Answer : NO,nothing good can come from obsessions, remember the movie Fatal Attraction – shudders.

Description : I found out my ex-girlfriend has cancer. Your thoughts?

Last Answer : Do walking contradictions have a set of balls or no? Get over it, man.