compulsive need for closure?

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i was watching the big bang theory and they were talking about how sheldon has a compulsive need for closure, which basically means he needs things to end or finish, and if things do not finish he freaks out. i have this XD

my therapist is a slow talker and his first tongue is french so when he talks and doesnt finish his sentence i end up trying to finish it for him. also, Sonic X didnt finish theyre series with an ending which im still angry about.

who else has a compulsive need for closure?

I don't believe in closure. It's an empty Pop Psychology buzzword. Life does not offer tidy endings, it just keeps rolling along, whether you're ready to move on or not.

It would be nice if things were always wrapped up in nice neat packages like that, but they usually aren't. The human mind attempts to quantify everything, but nature is an unending process in eternal flux.

Yes I have this.

I want things to make sense. When they don't, I sometimes stay thinking about them, sometimes talking about as well, for longer than is good for me and longer than anyone else wants as they're quite content to have things not making sense. That to me is a kind of closure.

I used to feel this way but it gets me into trouble so I had to learn to let things go and forget about an explanation and why it happened and what made them do it and all. People just tend to get pissed when you bring it up, even my own mother. It would still be nice to still get my answers though but some people just don't care so you must learn to live with it or face the consequence.

I used to have a compulsive need for pattern completion, not so much in TV series, but in smaller everyday things. I got over it by deliberately breaking patterns.

Now I find a meaningfully flawed pattern more pleasing than a perfect one.