You feel a passionate sexual attraction for this person that almost feels compulsive.
As one patient told her therapist, "When I wake up at night, I feel a compulsive urge to eat and I feel I won't be able to fall back asleep if I don't eat".
It's hard not to be impressed by someone who seems to feel a compulsive need to be riding the buses, who refuses to live in the official residences, who sends his priests out to the frontiers and who once said he would die if locked away in the Vatican.
Family, friends and more or less total strangers feel a compulsive urge to give advice.
Those of you who feel the compulsive urge to fill your home or workspace with geeky tchotchkes can pick up an Andru from Gen for $25, which is still probably less than a bog-standard microUSB charger at your local big box store.
If I feel the compulsive need to wear makeup creeping in for insecurity reasons these days, I try to take time to reflect on where I'm at and what factors in my life are making me feel "less than". But I also don't get down on myself for needing a little psychic armor from the beauty counter.
Part 4, 'Iolo's Friends and Enemies', turns out to be an episodic study of how Iolo fairly predictably turned friends into enemies, or as the editor puts it, felt 'a compulsive need to fall out with just about everyone he met'.
The real problem here is why someone feels the compulsive need for escape.
Several patients reported that with the help of the breathing space, they were able to "pause" for a moment when they felt a compulsive urge.
And the way I was using this show, and others too (my usual lineup: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Parks & Rec, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Conchords, and the sitcoms of Graham Linehan), began to make me feel weird and deeply compulsive.
