Sibyl wrote:
anneurysm wrote:
Absolutely. It's even weirder in my case, as these obsessions are with actual people. Creepy, I know. I want to know what they are doing all the time, and when I don't know, I will just obsess over them more to the point where my thoughts will get extremely intrusive...in this state it can get hard to focus on other things.
Yeah-- that could get dangerous, too, as in "stalking", which is a crime in the US: I don't know about Canada. Do please be careful and try as hard as you can not to do _actions_, or keep them under control. That kind of thing can terrify people, even if you'd never ever think of harming them-- they don't know that.
I never act upon my urges, and feel I control them very well. I have a very well-defined sense of what could cross the line, and have never once done so to the people I have done it to.
My actvities involving them only have to do with looking at their profiles on social netwrking sites and fantasising about them. I would never, under any circumstances, actually stalk them. I even limit my online activities promptly when things get out of hand...I haven't looked at my crush's twitter for almost a month, and now the urge to look at it is almost completely gone.
The point is, while yes, I know that is is a socially undesirable obsession, I also think that pursuing it to the fullest extent is out of the question, because I don't desire to be seen that way or hurt the people involved.
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Given a “tentative” diagnosis as a child as I needed services at school for what was later correctly discovered to be a major anxiety disorder.
This misdiagnosis caused me significant stress, which lessened upon finding out the truth about myself from my current and past long-term therapists - that I am an anxious and highly sensitive person but do not have an autism spectrum disorder.
My diagnoses - social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I’m no longer involved with the ASD world.
16 Sep 2011, 11:13 pm
