Sentence examples for obsessive addiction from inspiring English sources

The Fallon designer Dana Lorenz, whose current collection is filled with ancient Egyptian iconography, admits to an obsessive addiction to the television series "Lost," which she regards as "deeply embedded with Egyptian symbolism and hieroglyphs".

A tough inner critic can lead to feelings of shame, low self-worth, hopelessness, depression, guilt, obsessive thinking and addiction issues.

Some call these therapies "electroceuticals". Doctors began using brain stimulation to treat cocaine addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other problems once "considered too complex and mysterious" to cure with a simple jolt of electricity.

Similar findings were reported, indicating that GM lesions converged in ACC and dorsal-insula (key nodes of SAN 60 based on the voxel-based morphometry meta-analysis across six diagnostic groups (SZ, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety), and affected most categories of psychiatric illness61.

This knowledge will provide us with insight into various pathological conditions characterized by impaired goal-directed behaviors, such as drug addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease.

The new trials join a growing wave of research into the use of psychedelic drugs, including LSD, MDMA, ibogaine and ayahuasca, to treat a wide range of mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression.

Researchers are beginning to look again at how LSD and psilocybin – the active compound in magic mushrooms – might be of benefit in the treatment of addiction, for obsessive compulsive disorder and even, according to one small Swiss study, to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety in terminally ill patients.

Amanda Feilding, founder of Beckley and co-director of the trial programme with Nutt, said: "The results from our research are helping is to understand how psychedelics change consciousness, and how this information can be used to find breakthrough treatments for many of humanity's most intractable psychiatric disorders, such as depression, addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder".

He believes that psychiatric problems, such as schizophrenia, drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder generally arise from irregular brain development.

Dr. Helen Blair Simpson explains the relationship between addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder/OCD.

Currently, the communications industry is actively participating in the "irretrievable mutilation" of the planet by aggressively promoting a lethal addiction -- obsessive consumerism.