Obsessive vigilance is a natural reaction to the shocking realization that you are not in control.
Mansaray's complex and obsessive drawings were a personal reaction to trauma in the Sierra Leone civil war.
Yet he also worries that Germany's slightly obsessive environmentalism – illustrated by its reaction to the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year – is influenced by romanticism and suggests that "deep flaws in the national psyche had survived".
As Dominic Coyte of Borough Cheese Company tells me, although organics is "a totally laudable reaction to the obsessive use of chemicals, it's not in itself a green light for quality and best practice".
The human party animal is a particularly curious breed at Coachella, where excessive heat, glaring sun, copious amounts of alcohol and ear-shattering beats spur a hormonal reaction that results in the obsessive shedding of clothing. .
Fallon has reconceived hypochondria as a heterogeneous disorder: some sufferers are indeed obsessive-compulsives, whereas others are experiencing a prolonged reaction to a traumatic event, like the death of a loved one.
The selected diagnoses were neurotic disorders (e.g., anxiety state, obsessive-compulsive disorders, phobic state), personality disorders, acute reaction to stress, adjustment reactions, depression, alcohol dependence, and nondependent drug abuse.
This mostly comprises a jealous reaction to previous sexual partners (now long gone), and an obsessive dwelling on your partner's past behaviour.
I was so obsessive that it almost became a high, getting some sort of a reaction out of him.
Ecomodernism, he said, was a reaction to "the environmental movement's apocalyptic doomsaying, soft-energy utopianism, and obsessive moralizing about consumption".
