Does your anxieties many times turn into obsessive thinking?

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Yes, when I am worried about something, I'll get obsessed with thinking about something-trying to think about something positive.

Yes. I try to get out of my head when it starts interfering with my life like that... listen on music, read a book, focus on something happening around me. Doesn't always work, but it's better to try than make myself numb and detached...

Someone in my apartment threw up yesterday (we have seperate rooms) and I spent the whole day completely convinced that I was coated in germs and that I was going to end up sick too. I nearly made myself sick with the worry! To make things worse, she didn't have a bug anyway, she is fine today! I know what it is like to obsess, the same thought just goes round and round and you just want to bang your head and get rid of them!

Yes, which is how I ended up anorexic.

Wow, still going, not one negative vote.........
Anxieties suck don't they?
I wish I had an off button for them.
I think much of them is natures way of a built in survival trait.
keeps us watchful and alert, but we got an extra big helping of them.
and the obsessiveness that comes with it is a way to help us overcome the issues with much thought.
but in modern day times it can turn into more of a pain then a help.

Most things that make me anxious turn to obsessions. It's usually worse when it's some kind of social anxiety. I sometimes stay up all night worrying/obsessing about the same thing. The only way I can really resolve it is to face whatever problem I have and get it over with. If that's not possible, I just avoid it or find ways to forget about it.

I am suprised too, not one negative. I have let worries keep me up for days trying to get away from a problem, approach from another angle whatever, no success. It's like I was born without the human defense mechanism of controlled escapism.

Aside from constant worrying that I will never get accepted into veternary college, I only obsess on things I love.

Yes - absolutely!! ! I've learned to recognize those times just before I start to obsess - and I have a "theme song" that I can sing to myself (it used to be "I'm Gonna Soothe You" by Maria McKee, but now it's "Better Version of Me" by Fiona Apple.) And iTunes has been a godsend, since I can make playlists that are designed to pull my focus away from the "bad place." (Thankfully, I can listen at work.)

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If I feel like someone is out to get me I obsess on it and end up ranting and raving at whomever will listen. This is one possible unpleasant part of having AS. I don't know if all Aspies experience this, I certainly do. It's kind of like a meltdown only it involves obsessing one something and lecturing. I do it when stressed out.
I wonder if others with AS share this, just don't post about it on here? It's not all fun and games.

yea most of the time it does, it has ruined things.

I always have poblems, I used to think. It's like when you solved one you create a new one, people tell me. As if I want to suffer. But I realise that it is that I can't sit still until something is off my mind.

I can be happy one moment and something surfaces that makes me anxious and there you go...something new to worry about popped up and my day is spoiled, sometimes I think about it for weeks on end, the same goes for arguments with people, I can't get my head around it to forget about what a person has said.

Yep.

Yes, and the only way to relieve it is to find a solution to the problem. I have great difficulty taking my mind off of it and distracting myself with another activity. I must have a clear solution or resolution for any problem, and I completely obsess over it until I have that closure. Not a pleasant thing, that's for sure.

Yes, all the time. Then I have to google and research it all I can. Then I get a knotted stomach from worry, and I can't concentrate, and I make myself ill over it. I try to distract myself with music or TV (which I hate normally) or a book or going for a coffee with a friend or something, but it never works. I just try and get things over quickly so they can't panic me for too long these days. It's the anxieties without a finite time limit that are the worst - if you've no idea when they'll spring up and when they'll end it's just horrible.

I find myself more and more worried about life in general these days. Just a generalised anxiety. It's rough.