The result was haunting and infectious, an exercise in compulsion, some said perseveration.
PROFILE of Italian performance artist Vanessa Beecroft, 33... Beecroft suffers from exercise bulimia-a compulsion to burn off calories that she considers excessive- and until recently she liked to swim a hundred laps every day.
Compulsion to exercise and LLLTM, as well as menstrual dysfunction, were independently related to SF risk and may play a role in SF aetiology.
Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.
Mormon scripture explicitly condemns those in positions of power who "exercise control or dominion or compulsion" over others, and says, "Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that [person]." (Doctrine & Covenants 121 37) A strong, sustainable Mormon community would weather these trials without burning its critics at the metaphorical stake.
It is only when exercise becomes its own reward, a compulsion, that it sticks.
Current emergency planning training and testing conjures up extremely low probability scenarios just to exercise the evacuation components of the plans and the compulsion to evacuate is measured in days.
Television viewers accustomed to watching stockbrokers in action on their screens have long suspected that these are people with severe personality disorders, people who exercise their crude mixture of special talent and gambling compulsion in a morality-free zone and couldn't care less about the consequences for the rest of the world.
Based on the Y-BOCS, the YBC-EDS is designed to assess the presence and severity of obsessions and compulsions related to eating behaviours, weight, and exercise.
None of us will ever be completely free of our shortcomings and our compulsions, but by recognizing and accepting them, we can exercise more choice about whether to act them out.
