The hope is that the research on those disorders will translate to milder compulsions and compulsions that have not yet been recognized.
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Compulsions to daydream—or to carry on daydreaming even after many hours have passed— might be addressed using cognitive behavioral approaches developed to address other compulsions, the researchers suggest.
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I still get eating disorder urges, compulsions and occasional fantasies.
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The medications also reduced obsessions and compulsions related to the disorder.
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Whatever unfathomable traumas engendered his worst compulsions also fueled his genius.
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Obsessive thoughts and strange compulsions feel shameful, unavoidable, and indisputably absurd. Embarrassing.
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He battled his compulsions or he savored every minute of his crimes.
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Here's an average day's worth of obsessive thoughts or compulsions for me.
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It's the latest chapter in an ongoing memoir of his irresistible compulsions.
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I've only ever treated money as the passageway to satisfying my compulsions.
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Before being a person, man is an animal, with all its reptilian compulsions.
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They embody both the wonderful animation and the restrictive compulsions of digital life.
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They try to force themselves through triggered reactions without giving into their instinctive compulsions.
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O'Neill was drawn to her beauty, her sophistication, her willingness to indulge his writerly compulsions.
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The president's digital compulsions may be less obscene than Anthony Weiner's, but they're more consequential.
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That, to me, fits in with compulsions because these things we're doing really aren't that pleasurable.
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Long Shot doesn't treat Charlotte's compulsions as a problem for her — or for Fred — to fix.
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In a more literal sense, once Patrick's name starts being spoken, Baker's compulsions start to change.
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It is driven by deep inner compulsions that defy friendly advice, political interest and common sense.
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"Compulsions are easy to come by and hard to explain," McPhee admits in this new collection.
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How do I make sense of my compulsions, now that they come dressed as maternal instinct?
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She's typically experienced relatively stereotypical symptoms, like hand-washing compulsions or a fear of germs and sickness.
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As an animal, it makes sense that I can't talk my way out of compulsions or fears.
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With every set of obsessions and compulsions being different, each patient must find what's right for them.
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A psychologist treating her noticed that whenever Curle took antibiotics for the UTIs, her compulsions got worse.
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However, it is OCD nonetheless, even though the compulsions—which cause grave anxiety—exist only in one's mind.
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Compulsions can include repeating a phrase, checking something ritualistically, ordering and arranging, or event silently repeating a phrase.
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Throughout my life, the intensity of OCD has ebbed and flowed, as I developed new obsessions and compulsions.
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Whether through those triggers, stress, isolation, or some combination, the compulsions began to creep back up on me.
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The depths of Vann's sexual compulsions are thoroughly examined in "A Bright Shining Lie," and they were overwhelming.
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Virginia's autobiographical writing and letters make it plain that she experienced strong physical compulsions outside her romantic relationships.
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Is there any strain of research into compulsions that has come closest to cracking how we can treat them?
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Castration, I believed, would sideline the abuser's compulsions and thus keep the world safe from him (or her lol).
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A lot of compulsions and rituals take place to try to avoid or circumvent that bad thing from happening.
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Any tears, invasive rumination or compulsions, and rage about small injustices were plucked out and canned behind closed doors.
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Like human OCD, which is commonly focused on washing, hoarding, counting or checking, canine compulsions fit into neat categories.
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In therapy, I learned how to separate myself from my obsessions, ignore my compulsions and refocus my attention elsewhere.
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Although my husband's destructive compulsions with money had threatened our marriage before, I believed those days were long behind us.
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All are outpourings from Mr. Creed's psyche, a delicate but highly tuned instrument beset by odd compulsions and Freudian obsessions.
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It isn't always brute force that binds us to other people, and the invisible compulsions are what interest Edugyan most.
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"Compulsions are repetitive behaviors that individuals feel they must do in response to the obsessive thought to reduce anxiety," Orban says.
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If there is one thing that I Love Dick does well, it is showing that these compulsions can be artistically fertile.
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Letter of Recommendation When your apartment doubles as your office, a workday can decay into a deserted arena for rival compulsions.
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Together we supported each other's passions and compulsions, living in the moment with little regard for social norms or the future.
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According to Metro UK, the patient's symptoms included severe anorexia, chronic depression, hallucinations, and compulsions, all of which left her mostly bedridden.
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People who experience intrusive thoughts may attempt to drive them away by practicing mental compulsions such as counting, praying and self-reassurance.
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When the mind is able to quiet our compulsions and moods enough to access a richer intelligence, we can make better decisions.
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And if at some point you block the conscious part of the mind, you've got all the reptilian compulsions that come out.
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He is a bad apple extraordinaire, a man whose personal compulsions operated on such a scale that they distorted entire firms, entire industries.
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Two of Marie's second cousins had OCD, but with more common presentations: handwashing and physical compulsions, rather than just a deluge of thoughts.
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"With obsessions and compulsions, people can feel driven to perform them so much so that they're not in charge of life anymore," she says.
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One of the thing's we're asking attendees at Code Media this week is about their addictions, compulsions, obsessions to their tech devices and apps.
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If those institutions fail and America's foreign policy comes to match its leader's unconstrained compulsions, North Korea could be the least of our problems.
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There was the looming question of marriage and children, after all, and of the deeper compatibility of our interests, tendencies, compulsions, and so on.
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Despite our love for air-conditioners and our two-maids-per-child compulsions, we know about climate change: We are trying to ban plastic bags.
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I tried to think about it in terms of, I've had friends who have had compulsions and have done things: gambling or drinking or drugs.
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According to the Mental Health America, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) sufferers have recurrent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or rituals (compulsions), which they feel they cannot control.
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She treats animals that have a variety of behavior problems, and says that while stereotypes and compulsions can often overlap, she does recognize a distinction.
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Perhaps they would never fully understand the reasons for their compulsions or distill the culpability of games from all the other elements of their lives.
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However, she signed up for a private, privileged Manhattan cocoon, where she could live as she wished, distancing herself from her husband's ingrained, longstanding sexual compulsions.
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"The diagnostic criteria of OCD is that you have obsessions and compulsions that are time consuming, that take more than an hour a day," Dr. Chansky says.
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This is the most successful treatment for O.C.D., and it involves repeated exposure to the fearful thoughts without giving into the short-term relief delivered by compulsions.
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For example, if you're obsessed with germs and contamination, then you have to abandon your compulsions and instead use public toilets and avoid repeatedly washing your hands.
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One study, published in the journal Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, tested the neural response to sexual stimuli in people who self-identified as having issues with sexual compulsions.
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In certain cases, exfoliating every day may also be a sign of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a pattern of unreasonable behavior and fears where people engage in compulsions.
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All of these compulsions gradually became building blocks to a full-blown eating disorder as I hit puberty and was no longer the underweight girl I'd always been.
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Hershfield, director of The OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore, runs a Yahoo Group called Pure O, which is dedicated to helping people with primarily mental compulsions.
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Any extreme version of perfectionism, if it's rooted in obsessions and then compulsions—like avoidance—could be considered OCD, if it's extreme enough to cause distress or disfunction.
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Compulsions may even arise in subtle ways such as thought monitoring, according to Jenny Yip, clinical psychologist and a member of the International-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation, or IOCDF.
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The question of how many people with unhealthy sexual compulsions need help is still up in the air, as is who exactly is at greater risk of CSBD and why.
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It can include obsessions — such as cleanliness or a desire for symmetry — and compulsions, or rigid behaviors that must be performed, like washing your hands dozens of times a day.
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Each work has less to do with Kahlo and the common portraiture trope of woman-and-cigarette, and more to do with the artists' inveterate compulsions to study these objects.
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Treatment center Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles began administering the drug for OCD after patients who experienced obsessions and compulsions alongside other conditions found it worked on these symptoms too.
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If Scott doesn't actually think he suffers from these compulsions, and he just wanted people to stop yelling at him, that's pretty disrespectful to those who battle those urges every day.
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The instinct to stretch the frame around the picture we hold of Jacobs in our minds — a woman doing battle with the most disruptive compulsions of progress — is an understandable one.
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These stories, exploring the fatalistic territory that has held her interest ever since, often send Americans to a foreign land, where their ancient conflicts and compulsions show up in sharp relief.
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A person is typically diagnosed when their obsessions and compulsions disrupt their ability to go to school or work, cause major distress, and take more than one hour each day to complete.
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As a newly-minted attorney and a young woman meeting her client for the first time, Nelson describes no sense of darkness invading her psyche or evil compulsions seeping into her mind.
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Crucially, those who deal with OCD experience these obsessions and compulsions all the time: Their symptoms last at least an hour a day and truly interfere with their daily lives, notes NAMI.
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When he's presented with a mysterious bag of money his worst compulsions and habits take over, plunging him into a debt he may not be able to scheme his way out of.
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The accompanying physical compulsions are things "an individual engages in to attempt to get rid of the obsessions and/or decrease his or her distress," which for me are slightly less present.
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O.C.D. takes many forms, and Ms. Fuchs's obsessions and compulsions pertain to contamination, and fighters are constantly exposed to opponents' sweat, saliva and blood, and the rot of damp headgear and gloves.
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Reading American Gods today is a bit like reading a time capsule of that year, with Gaiman observing things like our burgeoning obsession with the internet, and predicting where those compulsions would go.
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We all have intrusive thoughts (like panicking that you left your hair straightener on), but to have legitimate OCD means you have obsessions and compulsions that are impairing your functioning, Dr. Simpson says.
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"Their piece of heaven is a crowded train," Dr. N.G. Berrill, a longtime NYC clinical psychologist who treats subway gropers, explained of patients whose compulsions drive them to hump strangers on the sly.
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In Turtles, our protagonist Aza suffers from severe anxiety and OCD, and frequently gets trapped in thought spirals (hence the book's cover design) from which there is seemingly no escape other than Aza's compulsions.
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And the obsessive thoughts and compulsions escalate from there, resulting in scenes that are so raw and so viscerally rendered that they can be quite frankly shocking to find in a John Green novel.
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Throughout all this, I still didn't think I had OCD, and it wasn't until my physical compulsions returned, at the end of last year, that I finally thought it might be more than anxiety.
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A physicalized and joyful outburst would be a way to overturn stagnant "half-symptoms" — backaches, compulsions, addictions, and the endless vague diseases tacked on regularly to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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While, according to behavioral archaeologists, compulsions were once thought to be caused by Satan, today we know that they're often born out of an ambiguous sense of dread—a feeling that's in abundance these days.
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A form of cognitive behavior therapy can help, and that at least holds out the hope that something similar might work for people who are struggling with even milder compulsions, if they want that help.
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If I'd never found psychedelics, I probably would have either remained trapped within my own compulsions, driven by fear of inadequacy, or gone back to medication that muted these feelings without really addressing their roots.
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If humans can be spared from having to do dangerous tasks they currently do because of economic compulsions, they can divert their labor to tasks that are more fulfilling and cannot be done by machines.
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There's something special about a small-ish group of people willing to commit an extraordinary amount of time to satisfy their compulsions, so it's understandable why some believe 3D printing goes against that code of ethics.
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A few weeks earlier, his psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin, suggested that my mother and I try using the microfiber brush daily as a way to curb my brother's sensory compulsions, which were a part of his OCD.
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We're a people greedy in our desire to recapture a moment, any moment, in an age that, propelled by the perverse compulsions of social media, overpraises the immediate, the right now—tweets, Instagram Stories, Facebook updates.
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The electoral compulsions mean that major economic reforms, such as tax cuts for bigger companies and plans to bring down the budget deficit, could be put on hold at least until after the election, the sources said.
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If you're looking to Netflix and nerd out, you're in luck next month: June 2018 has a number of new offerings that will satisfy your biggest stan cravings and compulsions to comment about stuff on the internet.
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As little compulsions, they add to the visionary quality of the book — Gregory's estrangement of the language can make the voice feel otherworldly, as though the poet were just a medium channeling signals from the great elsewhere.
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Ever since the scientific revolution, two compulsions have guided conservative Protestant intellectual life: the impulse to defend the Bible as a reliable scientific authority and the impulse to place the Bible beyond the claims of science entirely.
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Considering the way Kenny was used in Bachelorette season 13, essentially as target practice for Lee's basest compulsions, it would have been easy to to let the wrestler remain a two-dimensional character in the Bachelor Nation universe.
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Right from the outset, Eve rejects the notion of "sexting addiction," telling me that the addiction model is an unhelpful way to understand people who, like Weiner, seem helpless in the face of their self-destructive sexual compulsions.
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Given that sex addiction is often modeled on drug addiction—or even on other types of compulsions that similarly impair choice—it would be astonishing if it led to greater loss of control than, say, heroin or cocaine.
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We see, in the close-ups of a sweet being squeezed between his fingers, or in the barely-contained emotion and relational dynamics he has with his aging mother, all of which act as allegories for his suicidal compulsions.
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The vibrantly eccentric erotic compulsions of fandom culture—of broody pregnant men, fuckable lizards, and clown daddies—also speak to how sexual desire writ large is much darker, more confusing, and further beyond rationality than society would like to admit.
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So my motivation, Kara, has come from really wanting to spend the time to understand, to name exactly what this economic logic is and how its own imperatives, its own compulsions created a completely different trajectory toward the digital future.
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I've dealt with stereotypical symptoms, like hand-washing compulsions and a fear of germs and sickness, as well as more rare or misunderstood obsessions: a fixation on bodily functions like swallowing, or the need to always be seen as perfect.
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We know what an individual with weak or unregulated S22 systems looks like: a drifting set of impulses, compulsions, fears, and hungers, forever reacting, with no ability to step back, get perspective, and self-regulate in service of long-term goals.
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In fact, to have OCD, all that is required is that you experience obsessions, which are unwanted thoughts that cause you significant distress, and compulsions, which are the actions you then take (whether physical or mental) to neutralize that thought or worry.
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If your idea of social life is a four-day Twitch bender played under a codename, at least you don't have to leave behind all the comforts of home—screens, anonymity—when you're demoralized enough by digital compulsions to bust open a FreeConferenceCall.
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His compulsions were made up by his incessant need to feel "just right" about everything he wore and owned, in how organized his room was, how he wrote his notes in school, and how he counted his steps in sets of eight.
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In some cases, the therapy offered to sufferers of these debilitating compulsions can be cruel, like the germaphobe forced to touch toilet bowls in public bathrooms as part of his exposure therapy, or the hoarder instructed to throw out everything that's connected to her past.
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When I feel the urge to wash my hands, I stop and think about whether there's actually a chance I've picked up new pathogens since I last scrubbed them, applying the same mindfulness techniques I've always applied to help manage my intrusive thoughts and compulsions.
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Logging on means subjecting yourself to the volatile compulsions of a self-selecting group of screaming avatars as well as your own personal shortcomings — the flaws that cause a person like me or Donald Trump to obsessively use social media in the first place.
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Erica Garza, author of Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction, said SLAA meetings—which prompted her to give up sex, porn, and masturbation for various periods of time—and other sex addiction treatments helped her replace her compulsions with healthier behavioral patterns.
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For me, home is not a feeling; it's an image, an idea, a goal, perhaps as it was for my mother, except that — as with so many lost or bankrupt identities — it has filtered down to me as an often inchoate set of tics and compulsions.
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But we also have to start thinking about how our habits, our compulsions, and our desire to keep living life completely as usual — because there's (seemingly) nothing wrong with us — will have ripple effects that will almost certainly lead to other people's deaths or significant illnesses.
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He stood tearfully before the judge and acknowledged several compatible truths: that he was responsible for his action, that he is accepting the consequences, and that he needs help so that he can liberate himself from those compulsions, or, at the very least, stop acting on them.
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I'm conscious that loneliness is the number one trigger of my depression, the number one reason I turn to toxic compulsions, but it is still significantly harder for me to speak about it candidly with friends, family, or therapists than to talk about health, sexuality, or trauma.
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The same compulsions that have him fiddling with a succession of wet wipes as he speaks can be identified in "Work No. 20016," which consists of a group of cactuses lined up according to height, or "Work No. 129: A Door Opening and Closing," which it does, ad infinitum.
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As a psychiatrist, she says she usually needs to know what her patients think of their compulsions to give them a true OCD diagnosis: "Patients with OCD have insight and they say, 'Look, this is very embarrassing, I think this is crazy what I'm doing, but I can't stop,'" she explains.
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"Mania" means here what it often means colloquially—the head's name for the heart's excesses—but it is striking nonetheless: already, Lowell saw writing both as a way to understand his compulsions and as a compulsion in its own right, a roundabout leading out of trouble and immediately back in.
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" But the editorial board of The New York Times said Weiner's problems have marred his mayoral run: "The serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City.
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He considers, among other historical curiosities, the neon compulsions of the Italian Futurists; the Soviet program of "neonization"; the Nazi's deployment of neon for propaganda purposes; Baudelaire's "halo" and Benjamin's "aura"; neon as a gas and crystallized chaos; neon and power; neon and capitalism—all of this backlit by an original reading of Sartre's Being and Nothingness.
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His songs could for all but 25 seconds feel sticky-sweet and broad enough to soundtrack a Super Bowl commercial, and then in a pivot—a howling, indecipherable outro, a word panted over and over again, a sentence he yanks the emergency brake on halfway through and lets the horns take over—become something irrepressible, distinct, rabid human compulsions.
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He dealt with personality formation in "The Action Approach: How Your Personality Developed and How You Can Change It" (1969) and "Self Creation" (1978); with obsessive behavior in "Invisible Masters: Compulsions and the Fear That Drives Them" (1993); and with relationship problems in "Why Men Won't Commit: Getting What You Both Want Without Playing Games" (2003).
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But their exchange about Jewish identity seemed worth reproducing in full below — not because of its references to Borscht Belt humor and Jewish mothers (though I personally enjoyed that) but for the light it sheds on a much bigger question about the compulsions driving overachievers and whether the path to success is necessarily fraught with self-loathing.
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Watch the end of the "...Baby One More Time" video, as Spears holds her face with boredom and smirks at the camera, her pigtail braids secured with feather scrunchies, and witness the spark: it's not the dumb hand of the market patting her head with approval, nor sex and its dumb compulsions, nor even the dumb intelligence that is satire or critique.
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While extreme worry about germs and the drive to re-check many times that something (like locking a door) was done properly can be symptoms of the disorder, the main criteria for OCD is right in the name — it's about obsessions (unwanted, intrusive thoughts you can't stop repeating) and compulsions (irrational drives to do certain things), according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
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