Sentences with phrase «as compulsive»

As a consequence, Chinese adolescents might be more likely to display unquestioning obedience, which would manifest as compulsive compliance when reacting to experienced need frustration vis - à - vis the parent.

The first step in treatment for a gambling addiction, otherwise known as compulsive gambling, is to admit that you have a problem.

I work with clients with sexual addictions, such as compulsive pornographic internet consumption.

It also covers addictive behaviors such as compulsive gambling.

I view addiction as the compulsive overuse of a self - prescribed stress management tool.

Some mental health professionals regard several of these disorders, such as compulsive gambling or shopping, as addictions.

An addiction can be described as any compulsive and habitual behavior that limits your freedom.

As a compulsive email checker and online news reader, I understand the pull that screens can have.

Psychological experts not involved with the research said the study may prove to be an important step in sexual addiction receiving the same degree as legitimacy as other behavioral addictions, such as compulsive gambling.

In the addiction model (Carnes, 1997) the term is seen as the compulsive avoidance of sex that sexual anorexics build their lives around.

It may be seem as symptomatic of aggressive passivity to sex and intimacy and also known as a compulsive avoidance of sex.

Even though significant gene × gene interactions have not been extended to an antisocial behavioral phenotype, a number of lines of research converge to show that dopaminergic polymorphisms have independent effects on a wide array of maladaptive and antisocial phenotypes, such as compulsive gambling, alcohol consumption, and antisocial personality traits [3, 17 — 19].

About Blog NZEDC are specialist clinicians working in the private setting trained in working with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder (also known as compulsive overeating).

In addition, we have become aware of other compulsive behaviors associated with aripiprazole, such as compulsive eating, shopping, and sexual actions.

Enacted as a compulsive expression of infinity, Kusama's dots have come define an entire era of her work.

The snapshots and portraits contained in the books demonstrate the range of Warhol's aesthetic interests, as well as his compulsive desire to collect and organize.

Anyone who knows LeWitt from his busy wall drawings will know him as a compulsive collaborator.

is as compulsive, charming and inventive as Hal's more celebrated franchises.

Both are classified as compulsive disorders but do they involve the same process?

There may be some incidences in which dogs that have severe anxiety problems turn to grass eating as a compulsive behavior.

Other symptoms of CCD, such as compulsive circling, fly chasing, and inappropriate eating, can also be symptoms of neurological disorders as well, such as Cushing's disease, canine cognitive disorder, and even brain tumors.

Tail chasing as a compulsive behavior in dogs was first reported in Scottish Terriers with a history of being exposed to an environmentally restricted start in life.

Pica can be described as a compulsive behavior problem when your dog eats non-food items like plastic toys, dirt, feces, rocks or paper.

Getting to the source of the problem, such as compulsive overspending, will help you to manage your money more efficiently and avoid borrowing against your home in the future.

As a compulsive list maker, I wholeheartedly agree with the author about their power to free up -LSB-...]

Reeves» lackluster performance aside (more on that later), Conor, who begins the film as a compulsive gambler deep in debt to loan sharks, is hardly an interesting or appealing «hero.»

As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, however, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out.

The fact that, as a compulsive poster collector, I have more posters in my flat file than I have on my walls.

Logan Lucky isn't the best movie he's ever made, but it's pointing him a most fascinating new direction — the auteur as compulsive entertainer.

Dr. Drew's response was that he defines the term «addiction» as a compulsive use of practically anything that causes harm to one's personal life, career, or health.

We know that you, as a compulsive eater or chronic dieter, regard food as your problem.

Your problem is that, as a compulsive eater, you consciously or unconsciously use food to manage your anxiety, to calm yourself when you feel stressed, and to bring comfort when you feel lonely or sad or afraid.

Hirsh and his colleagues Rozi Andretic and Sarah Chaney administered aerosolized cocaine to fruit flies and watched for signs of a fly high, such as compulsive grooming, proboscis extension, and flying in circles.

The findings suggest that a lack of D2 - family receptors may predict both the risk of anticipatory impulsivity as well as a predisposition to behaviors like drug and other addictions such as compulsive gambling and shopping.

To explore that question, Mazmanian and colleagues at Caltech used a mouse model of autism that is thought to approximately recreate three of the disorder's hallmark deficits: lack of social interaction, decreased communication (mice normally emit ultrasonic, birdsonglike chirps), and repetitive behaviors such as compulsive grooming or burying marbles.

As a compulsive student, writer, traveler, and explainer, he is to ethology — the study of animal behavior — what Carl Sagan was to astronomy.

Bryant and his colleagues believe these findings may lead to new therapeutic treatments which could ultimately save lives and restore healthy eating behaviors in conditions such as compulsive overeating, bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa and even substance use disorders.

On her conviction, Huhne said: «Constance Briscoe has been revealed as a compulsive and self - publicising fantasist.

Although I'm not as compulsive as they were, washing food falls under «better safe than sorry.»

OK I think you qualify as compulsive.

Man and woman recapitulate the gift of God in creation by becoming a gift to each other, sexual desire was not experienced as a compulsive urge, but as the desire to make a sincere gift of self — to love as God loves.

so correct, the only part left out was that president became viewed as a compulsive liar whose own party turned against him well before he left office.

Pornography is often not recognised as compulsive until someone fails to stop, but with no warning that this can become an addiction, many will have no idea how much their brain has been rewired, and how difficult stopping will be.

Not exact matches

Then you're are likely engaging in a form of self - torture that many psychologists now recognize as a modern - day epidemic — part obsessive - compulsive disorder, part overbearing superego, part digital - age narcissistic nightmare, and nearly always on the edge of miserable.

Those who do are often diagnosed with other mental health issues, such as depression, obsessive - compulsive disorders and bi-polar illness.

Father John Harvey states (in The Homosexual Person: New Thinking in Pastoral Care) that some homosexuals may be victims of truly compulsive behavior and as such deserve our special sympathy and understanding; but even these unfortunate individuals, he notes, may exercise the choice to seek help.

OCD sufferers recognize obsessive - compulsive thoughts and urges as separate from their intrinsic selves.

He defines the alcoholic's obsessive - compulsive appetites as «thirst for transcendence... perverted into a thirst for alcohol.»

Yesterday, when I spotted Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdene on the cover of People Magazine with the headline «THE HUNGER GAMES» in bold white letters, I couldn't help but wonder if Suzanne Collins set all of this up to remind us of how closely our culture can resemble that of The Capitol — what with our excess, our reality shows, our glorification of violence, and our compulsive need to shove every good story through our celebrity - obsessed media machine.

And as Sharkira once again DEMONstrated for the benefit of all, atheists / cultists / evolutionists / satanists / idolaters etc. etc. are indeed extreme hypocrites and Compulsive, pathological Liars.