Do your obsessions change?

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Hasn't changed since 2001.

I still have yet to memorize all 254 of them, but I am very close.

I now have an obsession with postal codes. I made a database of all the ZIP codes in the U.S. (it takes up 4 binders!). I am doing a similar database with the postal codes in Europe.

yes, fairly often. but i tend to go back and forth between obsessions aswell.

Yeah, they usually last from six months to a few years. I just got into my latest one, 'Happy Tree Friends', last December. But I still enjoy a lot of my other (older) obsessions as well. I rarely get completely tired of them.

The big ones, like medical science and rollerskating, stick. Some smaller ones change up occasionally though. HTML for a time, cats, neuropsychology. They remain interests, but not nearly to the depth they were previously.

My obsessions don't change but I always get new ones, but i'm still obsesed with the previous ones.

MAJOR OBSESSION: Video Games
SECONDARY OBSESSIONS: Books, Movies, Swords, Anime(includes manga)
my major obsession has never changed but the secondary obsessions have changed before and will probably change again.

Some come and go with varying degrees, others are a bit more long lasting and then dissapear and some last only weeks or even days.

The longest lasting obsession I have has to do with animals, though none in particular. Animal behaviour as well, I like to observe them, study them and draw parallels between human and animal behaviour. The two are way more alike than most people imagine.

I think that for interests I follow a more ADD-ish pattern.

In theory I find a lot of things interesting but then I have to make an effort to settle with a few and be consistent about them so as to obtain any results.
I've had special interests in the past - for periods of time varying in length - in the sense that they were very strong obsessions I just couldn't drop and, even if I did something else (like attending a class or working out), I couldn't help thinking about them on the side.

That has not been the case as of late. I tend instead to enjoy the typical ADD hyperfocussing; meaning that if I do manage to settle my attention unto something - if it's complicated enough - I can let myself be absorbed by all it's details and lose track of time. So I can enjoy things that I'd normally not care nor ponder about if I can hyperfocus in them.

My obsessions have switched around in my life time. First it was astronomy then zoology and then it went to death/afterlives after that microbiology now it's back to zoology,lol

But I also have other obsessions like Oblivion,building card houses and just recently solving Rubik's cubes using memorized algorithms, fun stuff

BTW Tim did you know Kentucky has 120 counties? Pretty interesting considering how small a state it is

Yes. I don't remember what my early ones were, but now I love assassins, poison, and Japan. xD

I used to be 100% and a billion more obsessed with pokemon.... I knew them all in alphabetical and number order. And by type....

I was so pathetic. Next Came Dragon BallZ... That one was short.

I generally rotate between then on an irregular basis, with a temporary obsession generally acting as a link between two subjects.

I've experienced this just once. Since I was a small child, I wrote fictional stories, and I just assumed that I would always write fiction and have a career as a novelist, maybe as a screenwriter or playwright as well. Then, in my mid-20's, in the middle of finishing my Bachelor's of Arts, which included an independent-study course which consisted of my writing fiction, I very suddenly thought: What a strange thing to do, making up stories and judging other people's made-up stories, and arguing about things that never happened with other literary types, and taking it all so terribly seriously.

In the 20 years then, I've written more fiction and read plenty of it, but it's never been the same. It took me a long time to find my way to a mindset where dealing with all these made-up stories made sense again. I view fiction with a lot more irony now, and I read and write more nonfiction.

Other than that: my obsessions change, but my new obsessions grow quite naturally out of the older ones, so how much of a change is that?

I've been obsessed with MANY things like different dog breeds, actors, people, stuffed animals, tigers, cheetahs, lions, movies, tv- shows. Thankfully, i've got almost no obsessions now

I seem to have one or two longterm obsessions that stick with me throughout life. With those obsessions new ones can be added onto them. Some of the new obessions may be long or short term. Computer games can become an obession and as a result I can't play computer games... I mean I can, but I have to choose not to so I don't waste my time and instead use my time to focus on more productive obessions.

I'm obsessed with my computer. Been for ½ of my life.

I used to be into programming and reading books really hardcore. But i lost those 2 recently at the same point i seem to have developed a depression without the whole crying and suicide part.