Jens Lekman

When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. I refused to step out of the door because I thought something would happen. I had all these compulsive thoughts or whatever, and my head was really messed up.

Swedish Musician

Rick Pitino

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

American Athlete

Rem Koolhaas

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

Dutch Architect

Ian Mcewan

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

British Author

Harold Pinter

Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

English Dramatist

Bette Davis

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

American Actress

Josephine de La Baume

I'm quite compulsive about exercise. For two months, I'll exercise every day, then for three months I'll do nothing. I love food, so exercise is important for me.

French Actress

Mae Martin

It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

Canadian Comedian

Dimebag Darrell

I really respect Zakk Wylde's guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic.

American Musician

Conchata Ferrell

I'm a compulsive overeater. It's something I need help to work on.

Indicates a harmful pattern or undesirable trait, often excessive.

Negative Aspect

Shows an action driven by strong feelings rather than reason.

Emotional Impact

Can be exaggerated to stress the intensity of a habit or behavior.

Hyperbolic Usage

Implies an unhealthy level of engagement, similar to an addiction.

Addiction Hint

Reflects a lack of control over engaging in an activity.

Uncontrolled Habit

Although intense, it suggests dedication that can lead to positive results.

Positive Connotations

Sometimes portrays an enthusiasm that can seem excessive to others.

Excessive Zeal

 and once we feel them, we then are motivated to move away from whatever is dangerous. The problem is when we begin to feel fear and anxiety in situations that don't call for it. Mood disorders, too, may actually just be the unfortunate downside of being a feeling animal, and obsessive compulsive disorders also

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 with the admonition, be perfect. Never ever, ever make a mistake, but you worry about the details, about how that's going to happen. And that was the message that I absorbed when I was in med school. I was an obsessive compulsive student. In high school, a classmate once said

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 And it probably is not instantly poisoning their minds or turning them into compulsive users, the way that some ideologues would have you believe. It's a rare person who doesn't see some pornography in their youth. By the time they're 18 years old,

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 and not only our activities. Like at week number three, where we tracked the "thank yous" we said and were received, and when I realized that I thank mostly people that I don't know. Apparently I'm a compulsive thanker to waitresses and waiters,

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 stretched in two months Hughes relied more and more on his painkillers his personal hygiene deteriorated rapidly but at the same time he became more and more obsessed with avoiding germs all manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder after

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 like excessive hand washing, or checking things repeatedly, may be examples of obsessive or compulsive tendencies that many of us exhibit from time to time. But the actual disorder is far more rare and can be quite debilitating.

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 that it's become an affliction the disease of our era so I got myself to a couple of debtors Anonymous meetings and I read everything I could that they offered in all of it rocked my world especially a symptom of compulsive

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 such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and obsessive compulsive disorder. The pain of a cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but advancements in these non-invasive procedures are paving a pathway for a more gentle cure.

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 even the compulsive parts. It isn't a neat, symmetrical Valentine's heart. It's bodily, it's systemic, it is a hideous pair of ram's horns buried somewhere deep within your skull,

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 on involuntary movements and compulsive behaviors all converge in the striatum. And the striatum and opioid signaling in it has been deeply linked with loneliness.

Compulsive