This is something I have had since I was a teenager. I can psycho-analyse myself and come to the conclusion that it is a way for me to stop thinking about difficult things happening in my own life. It has been a defence mechanism I guess. Its flared up big time since Christmas because I have had quite alot of stress going on and it seems more enjoyable to google stuff rather than trying to sort stuff out happening in my life. Sometimes they very much get in the way of my life, for example, I am a student with loads of studying to do but I find myself doing loads of internet research on stuff totally irrelevant to my course and daydreaming about whatever it is that I am obsessed with.
I'll give some examples. Sometimes, I might become obsessed with a person in the media - perhaps an actor, musician, whatever, sometimes it might be a historical event, or something going on in the news. Sometimes a spark of interest can be quite random but I seem to spiral into this obsessed person who spends AGES googling said person/event/country. I spend fortunes on books reading about it. I fantasize a lot about whatever it is that I'm obsessed with.
Then usually what happens, as quickly and as randomly as the spark of interest set off - its gone. I look at whatever it was that I was obsessed with and sometimes I'm like, meh, why was I so into that?! I then have loads of half read books in subjects that I'm not really that interested in anymore and in most likelihood have moved onto something else.
Was just wondering if this was normal, or if anyone else has this?
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Am I alone in always seemingly being obsessed by something...?
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moonmanic · 11/03/2013 20:52
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