Quotes About Obsessions

Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts that trigger anxiety

Compulsions are behaviours a person engages in to get rid of the obsessions and reduce anxiety

obsessions: they're essentially defence mechanisms that protect patients from looking at what really terrifies them.

estratagema que puede ser aplicada a todos los tipos de miedo: impulsar la propia mente a alimentar voluntariamente las fantasías espantosas provoca su anulación. De ahí que esta técnica sea la base de las formas más eficaces de terapia del miedo patológico y de las compulsiones obsesivas (Nardone 2002a, 2005, 2008).

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

Through the years, through my own conversations, through my own weird obsessions, I think I have developed some very deep politics of political knowledge - and I think I have huge blind spots, too - which I have tried to build not necessarily through traditional interviews so much as it is conversations and a lot of research and reading.

Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

A day in heaven,' Adam whispered. What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal ? To not bite down and parcel out each second of each day. To not wrestle and negotiate with your obsessions. To not have thoughts that ran you into the ground. To have a quit mind. A quiet mind. Quiet.

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

And there... he realised that he had a subject , a labour of love that would give him purpose, that would make sense in the senseless academic world. He would not have to let his studies go to hell. He would be the luckiest of men: someone whose private obsessions and public life intersected.

As soon as the patient stops fighting his obsessions and instead tries to ridicule them by dealing with them in an ironic way - by applying paradoxical intention - the vicious circle is cut, the symptom diminishes and finally atrophies.

Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his phantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by im- posing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

Every age has its peculiar folly—some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.

You can't predict what people are going to like. You have to stay true to your enthusiasm and obsessions.

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

Obsessions turn people off.

When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.

It's known as the Livingstone Formulation. It's a cunning rhetorical device routinely deployed to shield avowedly left-wing establishment figures from any scrutiny that might expose their 'anti-Zionist' obsessions as redolent of a bigotry of that older and more unambiguously unsanitary type: antisemitism.

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.

Even at a young age Lisa began to realize his diet obsessions reflected a life philosophy, one in which asceticism and minimalism could heighten subsequent sensations. "He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint," she noted. "He knew the equations that most people didn't know: Things led to their opposites.

Sometimes I wondered if my problem was liking too many different kinds of