Have you ever had a real "obsession" where you thought about somethin 24/7 for a long period of time? I did when I was 14 years old. Although it has since passed, I still to this day wonder why and how it happened. How many other people out there have had an obsession?
I don't mean, "I'm obsessed with soccer! I love it, it's so much fun!" I'm talking about you fixated on a person, object, or idea for months, 24/7- it just existed in your mind and you couldn't do anything about it.
At the time, I was writing in a journal, which at times would cause me to over-think and over-analyze things. Am I just an obsessive person? What is the deal with this?
Having the obsession was very difficult because I couldn't go out and have fun. While I was laughing with my friends, I couldn't be fully in the moment because the obsession was still there.
Also, I have found very little information on it. The only things I could find were by Freud and vaguely described.
2006-12-04 02:03:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Also, the obsession lasted for 2 1/2 years.
2006-12-04 02:09:38 · update #1
Also, if you have, how long did it last or what were you obsessing about? How did you "cure" it?
2006-12-04 02:12:56 · update #2
Yeah i know what you mean, i would like to know why these kind of things happen. Im currently obsessed with somebody at the moment and even when i am doing things they are constantly on my mind. Like now i am thinking about them whilst i am answering your question. Freud would have had an explanation to this and he probably believes it is something to do with childhood experiences and fixations as this is what he usually believes or something do with the ego, id and superego. I know quite a lot about freud as i have studied psychology!!!
2006-12-04 02:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by Honey!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sort of "obsession" you're speaking of is not outside the realms of normalcy, and isn't exactly obsession. Everyone becomes slightly obsessed with something at some point in their life. Obsessive behavior is a little different than obsessive feelings. Sounds like you were just worried because as you were writing in a journal it forced you to be more aware of yourself, so you entered into a sort of 'journal-writer' persona. Rather than just being yourself in the moment and writing about it later,you kept worrying about what you were going to write about later.
2006-12-04 10:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly I have never been obsessed with anything. But I will be honest and say I seriously know someone who is, my brother's friend is obsessed with her boyfriend, and i know it sounds weird but i am dead serious. it's FINE to have a boyfriend and be in love, but she talks about him 24/7, like, EVERY conversation, even at her work place, she'll talk to customers about him, and she has NO friends, and if u want her to hang out, she says "I have to ask my boyfriend" and she said she likes people that are controlling, which he's not but anyway. she cannot literally go a minute without talking about him, and she describes her dates with him to EVERYONE, how they kissed, what they did, etc. OBSESSIVE!! ( i don't think she's playing with a full deck upstairs lol)
2006-12-04 10:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am also a very obsessive person so I can empathize and sympathize with you.
Here is my poem on the subject.
"Obsession"
I hardly know him
He gave me a small piece of understanding,
a corner, a thread, a tear, a rip of his life
Already I am in the midst of a movie love scene,
a great love affair
Already we are making love
he’s devouring me, crushing me like I knew he would
when my mind went crazy, twirling into my inner space, inner life
and our love developed faster than the speed of lightning
faster than a speeding bullet
faster than Superman’s heroic flying
will kryptonite spoil this superhero love
will the villains break up this hyper romantic love
this crashing down to earth love
crisscrossing with fate, fatal injury, fatal destiny
He threw me a few tidbits, a few choice morsels of his life
and like a dog never satisfied, always hungry,
always looking for more, I lapped it up
it was the food of life, food of love for me
You will teach me
You will save me from myself
Mission Impossible - do you accept this mission?
And why do I want to give you this power over myself
Why do I relinquish power to you
so I don’t have to care anymore
just sink like a stone to the bottom of the river and lie there content
content to be drowned and doomed
unthinking stone
In David Copperfield, Annie Strong says,
“for my love was founded on a rock, and it endures”
so it does, in my imagination only, never what you gave to me, said to me
It’s my fantasy world like Disney World
I’ll pay the price of admission, only please let me in
for G-d’s sake let me in
in the name of the Holy of Holies and prophets, let me in
I’m afraid of all possibilities
Fear of winning magic carpet ride of love
Fear of losing down by the river love
I’m drowning in my own intensity
Thinking so intensely about you
Until my thoughts are standing out like beads of sweat
2006-12-04 10:19:03 · answer #4 · answered by happy inside 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is another name for it, infatuation, if you are focusing on a person, worry , if it is a situation in your life. It is easy to over think and over analyze behavior that is very common.
2006-12-04 10:10:39 · answer #5 · answered by mimi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. I have. It's just normal 4 most people. It depends on the person.
2006-12-04 10:11:37 · answer #6 · answered by lakersfan_4life1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think everybody has it had it or will have it at some point in life.
It's Normal.
2006-12-04 10:07:21 · answer #7 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah! kristin chenoweth i am madly in love with her!
2006-12-04 10:40:06 · answer #8 · answered by godelectedme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yess! im always obsessed (with someone)..they never know it though..but its like i cant get them outta my head...(a guy i know)..its crazy...
2006-12-04 10:48:53 · answer #9 · answered by k_ Misteeg 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋