In a news media arena where an actress like Keira Knightley is taken to task for her bony angularity while Ms. Hendricks of "Mad Men" is fetishized for her throwback curves, it is clear that the topic of how beautiful women eat has become something of a chronic national obsession.
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01348529 Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic condition characterized by obsessions and/or compulsions (e.g. fear of dirt, need for symmetry, compulsory checking) [ 1].
You are in a constant state of jetlag and controlling your sleep patterns can become an obsession; mixing seemingly unending fatigue with chronic insomnia.
Obsession, Perlman implies, is exactly this: a chronic trespasser - overstepping boundaries, toppling reason.
We also identified statistically significant differences between the two chronic hepatitis subgroups (namely 27 scales related to OBS (obsessions), DEP1 (lack of drive), ANG2 (irritability), and CYN (cynicism).
Amis acknowledges, too, his longtime obsession with the Holocaust: My own inner narrative is one of chronic stasis, followed by a kind of reprieve. . . .
An obsession with timekeeping provokes some of the most insidious and (literally) chronic domestic difficulties, particularly between clockworked parents and their kairologically inclined children.
The worst symptom of a chronic anxiety disorder, as Winston describes it, is brought on by an uncontrollable obsession with a single thought that spirals out of control.
Leckman et al. [ 10] reported that OCD patients with comorbid chronic tic disorder or Tourette's syndrome had high loading on both obsessions and checking as well as symmetry and ordering factors.
OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) is a common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over.
