Sentences with phrase «on compulsive»

Life can take on a compulsive quality, sometimes expressed through addictions, compulsive working, disordered eating, unsatisfying relationships or mindless shopping.

The more one tends to pursue life goals out of an underlying wound, the more these goals tend to take on a compulsive quality: I MUST be strong at all times, I can NEVER allow myself to depend on others, I NEED to ALWAYS be smarter than the next person, I can NEVER make enough money.

The majority of research on cybersex has focused on compulsive (or chronic) use and cybersex as a form of infidelity.

She is a board member of the Colorado Council on Compulsive Gambling and a certified supervisor with the National Council on Problem Gambling.

Bui: There's a whole movement that's based on the compulsive attention to repetitive mark - making, largely championed by the artist / gallerist Joe Amrhein of Pierogi Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Siena had his first show in 1996.

Dan Trolaro, the Assistant Executive Director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, explained, «The mechanics within a loot box look and feel like a gamble.»

In their work on compulsive blanket and flank sucking in Dobermanns, the authors identified a single locus with genome - wide significance within the gene Cadherin 2 (cdh2), a widely expressed gene involved in pre - and post-synaptic adhesion.

Citation: Tiira K, Hakosalo O, Kareinen L, Thomas A, Hielm - Björkman A, Escriou C, et al. (2012) Environmental Effects on Compulsive Tail Chasing in Dogs.

The reality seems to be simply that their interests run parallel; for example, before they even met, she did her Oxford thesis on compulsive collector - artist Joseph Cornell, and Foer created a poetry anthology inspired by Cornell's work; and both their family histories are rooted in the Holocaust, but they are both uncomfortable with having their books pigeonholded as «Jewish fiction».

And though his brothers bust on his compulsive list - making, the Inn BoonsBoro is about to open right on schedule.

Adapted by Kassell from Steven Fechter's play of the same name, «The Woodsman» is at heart a film about the throes of recovery, but its studious avoidance of 12 - step therapy - speak, and its focus on a compulsive disorder that is morally inexcusable and universally repugnant, ensure that it has a far greater dramatic impact than similar films dealing with, say, alcoholism or drug addiction.

Florida About Blog The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling (FCCG) is committed to increasing public awareness about problem and compulsive gambling.

Another film would have focused on compulsive male masturbators and a third was to feature the sex educator Dr Betty Dodson.

More and more frequently, the literature on compulsive eating is admitting as much; there is even a book or two by that approximate title.

«Incessant obsession with the need for approval based on compulsive activity» may be true for some people's desire to get involved in programs, but it is definitely not for all.

I've seen it a few times where someone is frustrated with the seeming inactivity of our church, but after a while they start realizing that the church isn't the problem, but their own incessant obsession with the need for approval based on their compulsive activity.

He answered that Harrah's felt no shame about its activities and needed no policy on compulsive gamblers.

Not exact matches

They're outliers on at least a handful of spectrums; maybe you're extremely intelligent or highly outgoing and charismatic, or maybe you are compulsive and tend to jump into things without thinking.

In his book iDisorder: Understanding our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming its Hold on Us, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Rosen says our over-reliance on technology induces behaviors similar to those of anxiety - based psychological disorders including obsessive - compulsive disorder.

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.

At times I'm a little compulsive... or maybe somewhat on the obsessive side, rather than compulsive.

Take it from a compulsive tinkerer (who's always on the hunt for new ways to improve fulfillment)-- the time for shipping's facelift is right now.

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.

The Maps about Nothing blog describes itself as «the most detailed, comprehensive and downright obsessive - compulsive archive of Seinfeld geography on the planet.»

But there has been a compulsive concentration on the means of attaining success with little concern about the broader terms in which success is to be measured.

In this latter form of state the compulsive order that persisted would not be based on the exploitation of human conflicts but would represent the stage of development which had been reached.

Cheever was also a compulsive philanderer who» while outwardly married» carried on affairs with both sexes.

On first reading, the harshness of the story depresses: a compulsive giver fatally bonds with a predatory taker.

She spent a decade on the school board in our hometown, and another decade speaking bravely and publicly about her battle with Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder.

So, something traumatic happens to you and instead of grieving that and going through that process, you stuff all those feelings in, you hide behind the mask of emotional strength, you keep taking care of everybody else, you keep working, and then you start engaging in self - medicating behaviors: you start binge - eating, you put a lot of focus on your physical appearance, you do a lot of makeup, hair, clothing, compulsive shopping, you start picking up these other health problems associated with these behaviors.

He generalized on his appropriate critique of the infantile, obsessive - compulsive, wish - dominated religions (with their roots in tribalism and totemism) that he encountered in his patients, assuming that he was describing all religions.

If marital partners are too dependent on each other for a sense of self - worth and even identity, there is a kind of compulsive togetherness which is not genuine intimacy.

On the psychological side it is helpful to remember that the alcoholic's drinking is compulsive.

Only 5 % of men said they looked at Internet porn on a daily basis, but a disproportionate 42 % said they would describe their behaviour as «compulsive or an addiction».

I was never an atheist but a decade ago I turned by back on by christian convictions for a life of compulsive sin.

This fact will probably be lost on the preachers, however, because in most cases they also will have come from a dysfunctional family — one in which expression of emotions is discouraged or repressed, usually through compulsive substance abuse.

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Yet if the abuse was compulsive, he would still think through the arguments again, as he did on 1 April in 1533 when, so Conrad Cordatus told in his «Table Talk», Luther spent most of the day re-reading Erasmus's prefaces to the New Testament.

Ideas may be intuited as true, purely on the basis of the pleasure they provide or their satisfaction of some compulsive need.

Adler held that compulsive goal - striving (on the part of both women and men) is directly related to the polarization of the sexes.

The transmutation processes are grounded on preconscious prehensions, characterized by «complexity, vagueness, and compulsive intensity» (MT 98).

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.

I, too, am a compulsive list maker and am addicted to my planner (bullet journaling is a little too «creative» for me to pick up, but I adore goggling at bullet journaling ideas on Pinterest and Instagram), I love Sharpies, and challenge that «too much» popcorn isn't a thing.

But mainly I wanted to say, after having read all the comments (it's a compulsive thing, I can't help it), I just wanted to say that, Holly, based on what I've seen here, you're either an incredibly patient, kind, and even - keeled individual, or you're a robot.

Re: shaping the cookies, the dough is firm enough that it can be easily rolled into balls - which yields 54 one - half ounce balls on three sheet pans in rows of 4 -3-4-3-4 which, evenly spaced on parchment paper, results in a tray of very uniform looking cookies - for the possibly - unhealthily compulsive personality types amongst us, ahem.

Take John and Elizabeth, «married doubles» partners who go through an agonizing «tennis divorce»; Lou, the hit - and - run accident victim who takes out his aggressions on opponents who get too close to the net; Rhoda, the compulsive cheater; Martha, who can't sleep the night before a match because she's trying to decide which outfit to wear.

Another big shift, says Custer, is the growing involvement of compulsive gamblers in betting on football, basketball and baseball.

«I used to bet on Vanderbilt all the time in basketball,» says Alex Andrews, the admitted compulsive gambler.

To better understand the compulsive sports talk caller — to find out what makes him tick, what makes him willing to rot on hold for 30 minutes, an hour, two hours, just so some self - important host can interrupt him, patronize him, hang up on him, flush him down an imaginary toilet, blow him up with imaginary ordnance — I ventured into the Jungle.

I deal with severe obsessive compulsive disorder on a constant basis, even though I take meds, it still affects my daily life.