What qualifies someone as being obsessed with another person?

Question

I mean we all have had our crushes. I myself used to ride past my crush's house on my bike every day, but thats not obsession is it? :)
Or my love for Johnny Depp, surely thats not obsession... ;)

Answer 1

Obsession is a hard thing to put a figure on when it comes to love. Mostly because love is sort of the way the mind makes a person obsessed about something that is seen as being extremely important to the individual. But because of the natuer of obsession it typically doesn't happen in healthy well developed people simple do to the fact that you become quite... complex when you start to self-actualize and in a since began to love/obsesse about yourself and your purpose, but thru health interactions with other people you can balances this obsession. So really obsession is a human quality (animal too) that allows patiences and percentance in an individual, its only danger is based on the maturity/sanity of the individual who is obsessed....