The sagas they created were elaborate and convoluted ( and still exist in partial manuscripts ) and provided them with an obsessive interest during childhood and early adolescence, which prepared them for their literary vocations in adulthood.

Rousseau's ideas were the result of an almost obsessive dialogue with writers of the past, filtered in many cases through conversations with Diderot.

He was an obsessive collector of stories, and developed an innovative method of recording what he heard at the feet of local story-tellers using carvings on twigs, to avoid the disapproval of those who believed that such stories were neither for writing down nor for printing.

Greatest improvement is seen in patients whose premorbid personalities were ' normal ', cyclothymic, or obsessive compulsive ; in patients with superior intelligence and good education ; in psychoses with sudden onset and a clinical picture of affective symptoms of depression or anxiety, and with behaviouristic changes such as refusal of food, overactivity, and delusional ideas of a paranoid nature.

Males with the FMR1 premutation and clinical evidence of FXTAS were found to have increased occurrence of somatization, obsessive – compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, phobic anxiety, and psychoticism.

Freud theorized that these obsessive ideas and similar thoughts were produced by conflicts consisting of the combination of loving and aggressive impulses relating to the people concerned.

" The word's resonances were close to those of modern terms for individuals with obsessive interests in technical minutiae, such as nerd, trainspotter or anorak.

Many NetNews users were considered obsessive in the 1980s.

In March 2006, Perry said that while her relationship with Pauline Parker was obsessive, they were not lesbians.

Ehrenreich discusses how obsessive positive thinking impedes productive action, causes delusional assessments of situations, and that people are then blamed for not visualizing hard enough and thus " attracting " failure even in situations when " masses of lives were lost.

Frequent rumors that his company was in the employ of the Central Intelligence Agency, particularly in the 1960s, were never substantiated, but Wackenhut, who was obsessive about high-tech security gadgets in his private life, did not discourage the suggestion.

This particular scholarly style can be seen in the Jewish Encyclopedia's almost obsessive attention to manuscript discovery, manuscript editing and publication, manuscript comparison, manuscript dating, and so on ; these endeavors were among the foremost interests of Wissenschaft scholarship.

He had parodied limericks and poems of kind of all-American, obsessive, cult of personality ideas like Horatio Alger and ' You're # 1, there's nobody else like you ' kind of poems that were very funny and very clever.

Aluminum bodies were part of John Wilkinson's obsessive quest for " scientific light weight " he strived for in all Franklin vehicles.

Although many presumed Hulme's and Parker's relationship to be sexual, Perry stated in 2006 that although the relationship was obsessive, the two were not lesbians.

He tried to follow this philosophy in creating Koudelka, and tried to bring a sense of " obsessive passion " to the project, reading what he claims were over 100 books on British history and taking the design team on a trip to Wales to study the country.

However, while her reasons were noble, Zoe's power lust became obsessive.

Among those arriving at the Embassy were Dr Phan Quang Dan, former Deputy Prime Minister and minister responsible for social welfare and refugee resettlement, an obsessive anti-communist who was constantly making speeches exhorting his countrymen to stand and fight.

Guest stars The Ramones were " gigantic obsessive Simpsons fans " and their characters were designed by Wes Archer.

They were tinny and quirky, obsessive and manic, versatile and productive.

Flood, describes the Bahri Mamluks ' attitude towards the mosque as an " obsessive interest " and their efforts at maintaining, repairing and restoring the mosque were unparalleled in any other period of Muslim rule.

But not everything is pink for the young couple and they have to survive, among other things, opposition by Miguel Angel's parents, Horacio ( Humberto Garcia ) and Rebecca ( Chony Fuentes ); Horacio < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s declining mental health that makes him become more and more dangerous, the obsessive passion that evil Santa Ortigosa ( Miguel Angel's ex, played by Gigi Zancheta ) feels for Miguel Angel, a partnership that Horacio creates with two drug dealers who end up murdered by him ' when he finds out they are using him, the revelation that Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s mother was killed by a younger Horacio because she left him for the man who would become Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s father and the kidnapping by Horacio of Miguel Angel and Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boy twins once Miguel Angel and Estrellita had married and begun a family.

In 1994, Khan once again played an obsessive lover in Anjaam, co-starring Madhuri Dixit.

Over the course of the story, the fan is revealed to be obsessive, and the lyrics get progressively angrier, in mockery of the stance taken by the overzealous fan archetype once the affection is perceived as being ignored.

The absence from the symphony of redemption or transcendence drew protests not only in the Soviet Union but also in the West, where the work was considered both obsessive and limited spiritually.

Many individuals previously considered to be merely eccentric, such as aviation magnate Howard Hughes, have recently been retrospectively-diagnosed as actually suffering from mental disorders ( obsessive – compulsive disorder in Hughes's case ).

( s14 ( 1 )) A request is considered vexatious if it is ‘ obsessive or manifestly unreasonable ,’ harasses the authority or causes distress to its staff, imposes a significant burden, or if the request lacks any serious value.

Helena is considered to be a very vulnerable, sensitive and obsessive character, due to her growing up in the shadow of Hermia, as well as because of her treatment by Demetrius: she shows strength and a new belief in herself by refusing his advances when she believes he is making fun of her, despite the fact that he claimed that she was his one true love.

King James approved of card games " when you have no other thing ado ... and are weary of reading ... and when it is foul and stormy weather ", but he considered chess to be " too obsessive a game ".

Once released, the full body of official evidence against Beria, in the words of Stalin biographer Simon Sebag-Montefiore, " reveals a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity.

There is evidence that this area may have a role in obsessive – compulsive disorder due to the fact that what appears to be an unnaturally low level of glutamate activity in this region has been observed in patients with the disorder, in strange contrast to many other brain regions that are thought to have excessive glutamate activity in OCD.

In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) recommends CBT in the treatment plans for a number of mental health difficulties, including posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive – compulsive disorder ( OCD ), bulimia nervosa, and clinical depression.

Moniz developed a theory that people with mental illnesses, particularly " obsessive and melancholic cases " had a disorder of the synapses which allowed unhealthy thoughts to circulate continuously in their brains.

Dysfunction in serotonin and other monoamine neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine and dopamine has also been centrally implicated in mental disorders, including major depression as well as obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, posttraumatic stress disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, although the limitations of a simple " monoamine hypothesis " have been highlighted and studies of depleted levels of monoamine neurotransmitters have tended to indicate no simple or directly causal relation with mood or major depression, although features of these pathways may form trait vulnerabilities to depression.

The Jerusalem syndrome is a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of either religiously themed obsessive ideas, delusions or other psychosis-like experiences that are triggered by a visit to the city of Jerusalem.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition, ( DSM IV-TR = 301. 4 ), a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines obsessive – compulsive personality disorder ( in Axis II Cluster C ) as:

Some hoarding in humans may be a form of mental illness, specifically obsessive – compulsive disorder, where the perceived importance of the hoarded items far exceeds their true value.

* The award-winning video game Psychonauts features a mental patient locked in an obsessive mind-game with Napoleon, who is fighting for his mind.

The character has several coexisting mental illnesses that render him obsessive, psychopathic, schizophrenic, and frequently homicidal, but Storms serves as the anti-hero in Dorsey's works due to his strong sense of moral absolutism and justice.

However, this was soon interrupted by the onset of a mental illness that landed her in a psychiatric hospital in 1931 and again in 1933, where she was diagnosed with depression marked by obsessive and paranoid inclinations.

Dermatillomania also correlates with " social, occupational, and academic impairments, increased medical and mental health concerns ( including anxiety, depression, obsessive – compulsive disorder ) ... and financial burden ... " Dermatillomania also has a high degree of morbidity with occupational and marital difficulties.

Thernstom traveled to Tadesse's home in Ethiopia and gained access to her diaries, which revealed her deteriorating mental health, her obsessive fantasizing about an ideal friend, and her frustrating attempts to find competent psychiatric care.