Compulsive checking may arise in response to obsessions that focus on threat and danger, although, recently, the opposite has been proposed – that over-expression of checking behaviour might drive the development of obsession, perhaps to rationalise or justify excessive, compulsive action [4].
They are often in response to obsessions to help lessen the fear.
ADHD is characterized by inattention and by hyperactivity and impulsiveness present since childhood, whereas OCD is characterized by intrusive obsessions and by compulsions that are typically performed in response to those obsessions.
That's because any glamour that aviation might once have possessed has been trampled by terrorism – or, more specifically, the response to terrorists' obsession with aviation.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterised by: (a) recurrent, persistent thoughts, ideas or images (obsessions) that cause marked anxiety or distress, and are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate, and (b) repetitive, purposeful and intentional behaviours (compulsions) that the patient performs in response to an obsession in an attempt to reduce his/her distress.
In her 2007 book Insecure at Last, written partly as a response to the US obsession with "security" after 9/11, but also as a memoir, she revealed the ideal to be an illusion.
Peter Beinart, the editor, said he ran the hidden headline, which does not refer to an article inside the magazine, as "a response to the media obsession with subliminal advertising" -- the brouhaha that erupted after the barely visible word "rats" flashed in an advertisement for Gov. George W. Bush intentionally or otherwise.
It just seems like a very apt and obsessive response to this book about obsession".
It is chiefly a response to Washington's own obsession with the subject.
But the response to the column, "Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool," was completely the opposite.
But in response to the San Bernardino attack (and the cable news obsession about it), Obama gave a speech treating the San Bernardino mass shooting and those 14 deaths differently.
