http://obsessobsess.com Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:10:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It can be nigh impossible to turn off an obsession, and return to something you dislike or avoid - like work. Much smarter is to use bend your obsessive energy into more productive areas, and to use that energy to get better. Some examples of positive obsessions might be: Self help websites, ... http://obsessobsess.com/create-positive-obsessions Underlying many obsessions are unreasonable fears. These fears are allowed to continue because often they are not analised, and logically thought about. For instance, if you are obsessively making money, what is your attitude to money? How much will you need? How difficult will it be to get this amount? How ... http://obsessobsess.com/overcome-fears Overcoming obsessions is like anything else. If you want to avoid fudging things up, first learn a bit about them. It's you that has to overcome it, so why not become an expert! Below we have an overview of Obsessive Personality Disorders. There are also other good information sources out there. ... http://obsessobsess.com/become-and-expert We've tried to make this website as thorough and user friendly as possible. We decided to make a website and not a book because that's where a lot of obsessers are - surfing the web. But sometimes you can't beat buying a book. Buying a book is a unique sort of ... http://obsessobsess.com/get-a-book It's easy to think that we should have a will of iron, that can stand up to any temptation. However, anyone will tell you that it is much harder to avoid eating candy when you have an open packet right next to you. One of the keys to overcoming obsession is to ... http://obsessobsess.com/make-distance An obsession is an problem because we have not been able to shift from its hold over us alone. There are many ways we can help ourselves to get over obsessions. But we should remember that if things get tough, there is an alternative. If there is someone you trust to ... http://obsessobsess.com/ask-for-help Meditation, like exercise, is an excellent, if long term, escape from obsessive tendencies. Meditation will let you observe your mind, enable you to be aware of telltale feelings proceeding obsessions, and let you detachedly observe the obsession rise and fall, without feeling the need to act on it. Reaching such a point ... http://obsessobsess.com/meditation Exercise can help balance the brain, take you out of your surroundings, and release chemicals to help overcome addictive actions. Merely setting a set time (say, after breakfast, or the first thing you do coming home at night) can help install some positive regimes. More information coming soon. http://obsessobsess.com/exercise-schedule News on parental issues coming soon. http://obsessobsess.com/parental-issues Drugs such as SSRI's (the Prozac family) can be proscribed to ease the symptoms of severe obsessional behavior. Recent studies in mice have found that low estrogen levels in males can, also, cause obsessive activity, meaning a simple hormonal treatment might be on the horizon. However, we'd prefer you found a ... http://obsessobsess.com/drugs