The severity of core features such as preoccupations with body image, weight, eating and exercising predicts greater resistance to treatment.
Until conclusive evidence is available, realistic clinical strategies might involve reduction of specific risk factors for sex crimes, such as sexual preoccupation, in abusers at risk of reoffending.
Peculiar inclinations, such as obsessive preoccupations with slugs, are alas, difficult to explain to non-scientists.
When performing skill activities such as Cook Ding's, preoccupation with the "uses" of these activities can interfere with our ability to perform them well.
Currently, animal models clearly are able to address the diagnostic criteria of tolerance and withdrawal but are less obviously capable of capturing complex emotional constructs, such as desire and preoccupation.
However, explanatory models propose that CFS/ME represents a state of physiological dysregulation in which the maintenance of established symptoms may be influenced by multiple interacting factors, such as patient symptom preoccupation, beliefs, and behaviors in response to the condition (Deary, Chalder, & Sharpe, 2007; Surawy, Hackmann, Hawton, & Sharpe, 1995).
I'm more likely to investigate an artist's preoccupation: such as notions of sufficiency – see Morandi's bottles; or indelible commemoration, insignia, and self-ornamentation – why do we want to be marked, and why would anyone want to wield the inky needle?
The body shows stress through symptoms such as frustration, anger, agitation, preoccupation, fear, anxiety, and tenseness [3].
Behaviors and attitudes such as dietary restraint, food preoccupation (carbohydrate monitoring and restriction, portion control, and control of blood sugars through selective food intake), and programmed exercise are prescribed components of diabetes care (39, 50).
About 30% of all women taking insulin struggle with subclinical symptoms of disordered eating, such as restrictive eating, a preoccupation with weight and shape, feelings of guilt after eating, and strategic misuse of insulin for weight control (46).
