Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a more jarring case of this anxiety-related struggle to delay gratification; someone with OCD is unable to resist compulsions that temporarily mitigate the torture of obsessive thoughts, even though these compulsions do not banish the obsessions in the long run.
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There, he was first exposed to the two overriding obsessions in his life: cars and girls.
This environment created fears and obsessions in Rendell that streamed into her fiction for the rest of her life.
"Fifty years ago, 75 years ago, 100 years, people kept their obsessions in little boxes and albums," he said.
OUTKAST: 'STANKONIA' (LaFace/Arista) Music can also play sneaky tricks on society, revealing its obsessions in a warped mirror.
With real food filling our supermarkets, and fake food labelled accordingly, we wouldn't need extreme food obsessions in January.
The Blind Barber, the East Village barbershop-cum-speakeasy, is fusing its twin obsessions in a new line of cocktail-inspired grooming products.
In classic Love style, she chose to mark her birthday her way - by listing her 50 biggest obsessions in a special column for XOJane.
Here are my obsessions, in no particular order: torture, the camps, the Jewish experience during the Holocaust, the singularity of that experience in the larger context of deportation.
Applauded enthusiastically by his muse, Isabella Blow, the fifty-five pieces displayed, reflections of McQueen's obsessions in white and gold, met more critical responses elsewhere.
