Lost/obsessions moving nowhere?

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I was wondering if anyone else has experienced something like this or if its just me...

Sometimes (like now) i feel a current obsession cant move any further. My current obsession is AS, and ive been researching it as best i can (reading online, books, asking almost everyone i can, finding this forum.) Thing is, i cant really move it any further right now. Its like im stuck, and im stil obsessing over it and i cant get the "outlet" i need for it so to speak. I have a referral to a neuropsychologist that my doctor sent this weekend, but who knows how long thats going to take. So i sit here, constantly hitting the refresh button on this page. I dont know what to do with myself. I feel like i dont have anything to do but sit here on this forum waiting for new topics or answers to current ones. And it makes me feel sort of lost.. I dont know how to explain it...

Maybe im just completely weird

Yeah... I have been doing that for the past 2 years. I have tried to make a "clean break" but I don't think it is just about the need for As information for me. It is also about being lonely and feelingly connected t a "community" when I am on-line. This is my only social outlet,so....I guess I can be a "bit clingy", . It's kind of like we are in each others living room and when there is nothing new to post or read I feel alone again. Sad, huh?

I dont think its sad, i can totally relate. Its easier staying here in "this living room" than in my own sometimes. My boyfriend is pretty tired about me blabbering on about AS, so i sit here instead. Thank god for this forum, i might have gone nuts otherwise. Thanks for showing me im not the only one. Im still amazed there are other people who can relate to a lot of what i say. Im not really used to that

Yes, I do this a lot with animes. I tend to gravitate towards small and medium sized fandoms, and during the summer I'll be itching so badly for fanfiction but it simply doesn't update that fast. It really sucks.

I totally get that as well. Ive been obsessed with a lot of books, and some of the series ive read ive finished way too fast. I started reading them before they were finished, and spend ages waiting for the next book to come out. In the meantime id behave like a maniac, and nothing i did was satisfying until i could get my hands on the next book. Ive actually gotten depressions over things like this many times.

My obsessions with Hellsing and Trinity Blood are stuck, because I've learned all there is to learn about them. I still refuse to let go of them, though, because I love the characters too much to replace them.

My obsession with D. Gray-Man is a recent development, so I can study that for awhile.

my old obsesssion i waas always stuck for new outlets! my obsession was with drums.
it annoyed me so much

with my curent obsession im always finding new things and even make myself useful with it...

im obsessed with american flags - buta major offshoot of that is being obsessed with anything patriotic and patriotic people such as uncle sam and the statue of liberty.
at the moment im really obsessed with the statue of liberty
i like patriotic music and collecting and lookiin at any item that has a flag on it or unusual stuff there so much stuff with flags on and alot of people can relate to me liking to flag - perghaps not in the intensity that i do- which many people dont know about anyway- but people own them and fly them too and want to know stuff about them and im right thee to give them the answers
i feel this obsssion has a long time left in it! im hioping it will be forever cos i relaly enjoy it. if it dies off it will happen on its own like my drum one did... no1 and nothing will be able to force it off me

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you're lucky Flaggy, i still have alot if not all of the obsessions ive nurtured. But some of them i just cant learn more or buy more stuff for. Like i had this major obsession with Final Fantasy X, and now i own every piece of collectible and ive played through the game like a billion times. My biggest obsessions tend to be Movies/Tv-Shows/Games/Books. And books end. Shows end. It bugs me to death. Ive sometimes taken stuff very far though, like writing different info down about characters and places in shows/movies/books/games and gathered them into folders. I still research and pay attention to a lot of these obsessions, but there is just not that much more to be done with them. And it really bothers me

No, you're not weird, and not alone, either. I still find myself drawn to this forum even after I tried to get back to my other projects and other forums, but here I am again, waiting to read that one 'thing' from someone else that will answer whatever unanswered questions I still have.

I'm obsessed with two things right now: A., the weather and the da**ed tornadoes we're having here in the Ol' South every other day, and B., trying to finish up a novel I've stalled on now for over a month. I can't seem to finish anything these days and like you, I feel lost and frustrated, with literally no outlet to purge myself of what's going on with me. There are some things in life that happen to us and we can't do anything about it except deal with it, but that doesn't stop me from trying to rationalize what's wrong and keep picking at the answer, looking for a way to figure it out. One thing dominates my thoughts and nothing dissuades me from it, not even this forum. Oh, I know how you feel.

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My reptile obsession is currently at a standstill due to lack of funds. I can't afford a new reptile. I can't afford new books about reptiles. I've read most of the reptile sites of higher quality. On reptile forums, every post is something I've seen before. I looked for reptile books at the local public library and they didn't have any. I could go to the big university library and read academic reptile books, but it's in the next town over and gas is so expensive.

The same thing happened with photography years ago. I reached the point where I would have to develop my own negatives and prints in order to be happy, and I couldn't afford dark room equipment.

Has anyone found a good way to cope with this? I cant just get obsessed with something else either, i just become obsessed with something and then its done. I sometimes wish i could control my obsessions more, and for instance... Become obsessed with something else so that i wouldnt have to feel this emptyness sometimes.

I cope with it by having more than one obsession.

I have more than one as well, but most of the time its one main obsession and several smaller ones (or ones that still are my obsession but arent really possible to take any further) So when i end up with several obsessions not going anywhere i get weird. I know ill find a new one sometime, and i do keep up with the ones i already have the way i can. But especially this AS thing is driving me nuts, as i need someone elses help to persue it anymore than i already have.

No more so than the rest of us... and I'm inclined to find those who don't have such fascinations a little peculiar, since it's strange to me. We're seeking answers... and I don't even know what questions to ask right now. It's overwhelming.


M.

Sounds like it might be time for a new obsession. Obviously I can't tell you what it's going to be.

When you're starting out on something new, every direction is a new path to explore.

Anything you've been wondering about somewhere in the back of your mind?

I find that when I'm wandering around wikipedia, there's all kinds of things that catch my attention.

Have fun.