Do your obsessions ever become unhealthy for you?

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My recent obsession with PelleK is leaning that way. So, to prepare for the worst... I took a shower. I have moments where I get so obsessed with something that I forget to shower and stuff. Sometimes, it's the idea of not wanting to while I'm in obsession mode. I was just wondering if anyone else finds it hard to do certain tasks while obsessed with things...

Its harmful when it gets in the way; when I have something to do or complete or I have to go to sleep but at the same time I'm obssesing over something I can't leave- I can't leave it.

I had stayed up until 7:30 in the morning playing video games when I was 17 despite having school the next morning. I guess it was unhealthy, but I didn't have much of anything better to do.

Amazing how little my parents cared, too, lol.

That's how I am. I've tried to wean myself away but... those high notes... omg. I seem to have this obsession with PelleK's high notes. It's become a problem for me. I'm actually sitting here listening to him hit them while trying to play Omega Ruby. I have a huge problem. XD

yes mine are, a lot of the time actually, if allowed I can just sit in one place with my obsession all day, for example I am currently doing an online course, and the ability to concentrate on it has lessened since my new obsession came along, which is very strong this time, so its a hindrance, but its so good to have an obsession but logically I know its not helpful.


there is always a pattern to my obsessions, always with music, famous people or characters in films or tv programmes, its also always the persons brains that draw me to them.

e.g. Sherlock, not an obsession anymore though

now I am obsessed with the Smiths and Morrissey, can't stop going round in circles looking at everything related to it, its fun though

I see you must like Loki, I used to be obsessed with him as well. fanfiction does not help obsessions at all I find, I went through a Professor Snape obsession that was never ending because of all the fanfiction available. If all the things related to them is exhausted I find the obsession lessens quite a bit

I am not happy with the lack of Smiths fanfiction, I would write my own but I am terrible in that area

I was obsessed with PelleK 2 months ago before it got replaced with Animal Crossing. It's quite funny how it turned out, going from one thing to something completely unrelated! It's amazing to see that somebody else knows and likes PelleK. My obsessions have gotten very unhealthy this year, and it feels like they are almost impossible for me to control. I just cannot find a way to hold back these thoughts and feelings for the things I obsess over. They get in the way of things as important of taking care of my personal hygiene and remembering to feed myself and supply myself with the right amount of liquid needed for me to function properly. I usually go to school feeling exhausted. My head feels so blank, it is like all of my energy/focus has been sucked out through an invisible pipe.

I don't know how long this cycle of carelessness is going to go on for, and to be honest... I wonder if I am really trying to help myself or whether I have started to neglect myself altogether.

Um, I think it is now my time to stop rambling...

What i would call unhealthy would be when they start to interfere with my daily schedule (like studying and working) and yes, especially when they start it's quite hard to manage and don't think about whatever it is 24/7.

One of my two main current obsessions are unhealthy for me, and the other obsession works in my favour instead of against it.

My recycling obsession has been really getting out of hand for the past couple of months. I've also been waking up at 2:45 in the morning so that I could get most of the cans and bottles. I've also been setting a goal that I eventually make over $30 on my two main recycling days which are Tuesday and Thursday, which I've made $35 recently. I'm taking a little Christmas break from recycling until the day after Boxing Day.

The special interest that works in my favour is my favourite band, The Kinks. I get an extra surge of energy if I listen to them in the morning and the type of energy they had in the 60s helps me to wind down faster before I go to bed. The energy is burned off so I can sleep until my alarm goes off. They're also a reminder of how far I've come since that one special day in the September of 2009.

Unhealthy obsessions... Only twice so far (once at childhood, and once at early teen years), as far as I almost dropped out school, refusing to go out, and abandoning hygiene.

Right now, I don't have an unhealthy obsession... Yet.

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Naturally, my obsessions happen at the expense of anything else that would have occupied me. But I'm too interested in my health to let it get significantly neglected. I prefer to think of my "obsessions" more as a hyper-focus problem. Once I've torn my brain away from whatever it was superglued to, I can decide that other things need my attention too.

It used to be worse though. There were a couple of relationships that lost out quite badly to my special interests and to my tendency to hyper-focus.