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Rough draft -- Definition Paper 01.30.11

Is obsession so strong? Obsession is an attachments that a person has and they allow it to occur. Obsession could come from your childhood or what you desire so strongly, and sometimes without knowledge it occurs. Obsession is an unwelcome, uncontrollable, and persistent idea, that a person can't help. obsession comes from mental illness, disorder, and emotional distress.It could be something that you do repeatedly that has no effect or something that you do that effects you. characteristics of obsession could be found out in many areas by love, food, body, and more.

obsession varies in characteristics we have people who are obsessed but call it love.They become sexually involved with and/or emotionally attached to a person without taking the time to get to know them. They fear abandonment & loneliness, causing them to stay in or return to painful destructive and abusive relationships.They involve them self in more than one relationship at a time, both emotionally & sexually. They confuse love with obsession, using controlling behaviors directed towards their partner with the hope of keeping them from leaving them. They feel empty inside, even while in a relationship, causing them to search for new love interests. They spend money they don't have on a romantic interest, causing them to go into dept. They use sex & emotional involvement to manipulate and control others. They become preoccupied with a romantic interest and are unable to concentrate. They attach them self to emotionally unavailable people and abusive partners. They compulsively search for new relationships even if they are currently in one. They obsess over, monitor and perhaps stalk an object of their affection. They assign unrealistic qualities to those they are attracted to, believing they can bring them happiness and save them from their loneliness. All these are signs of obsession over love and emotions witch occurs by someones loneliness.

Obsession of food is also a problem. That person who has food obsession would always think about food all the time. They would eat food as a way to relieve stress or worries. They would consume large quantities of food to the point of being sick. They would feel anxiousness during or after eating resulting in more eating. All this happens simply because food is available. They would eat fast to eat more. Those who are obsessed of food would feel guilt and shame after overeating, hiding food so they can later eat alone in secret, and being on food right after diet. This is also a characteristic of obsession.

Another obsession is body obsession it is a mind disorder making a person think they are fat when they are perfectly fine. They would have thoughts about "feeling fat". They feel shameful and guilt about their body. They avoid social situation that emphasis physical appearance. They would look at others to see how there own body size compares to others. Weight is the main thing in everything in their life it determines their happiness and what effects their relationships with others. Missing school based on the feelings that they have gained weight. They prefer only wearing baggy clothes. Weighting them self multiple times. Keeping on with the illusion of fat in their mind that they end up losing so much weight but still complain about fatness.

There are even more characteristics of obsession it all leads to negative effects in people's lives. sometimes obsession is good, keeping things clean organizing and sometimes worse, smoking and drinking nonstop. obsession has various characteristics even more than body, food, and love. For someone to take action in obsession would need help either by a doctor or personal therapist. Obsession is a feeling, emotion, and disorder that people grow or have based on what they desire dearly and do repeatedly.

Hey this is Abbie! I love the topic choice. Obsession is quite fascinating. I love how you tied love, sex, and obsession together. The se﻿ntence I highlighted did not make sense to me, so what are you trying to say? I totally agree with the food paragraph. Overall, you wrote a great paper, there are some grammer and spelling errors that can be fixed when you edit. But, otherwise, great job!

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 * woke up from sleep, lifted my blanket, walked with bare feet toward my door that takes me out of my room, glancing through the hall way that leads me to the bathroom, I thought I should get to school early today. Entering the bathroom with some slippers I started on brushing my teeth washing my face and stepping into the tub to start taking a shower. As I stepped out from the tub walking away from the bathroom’s mirror I noticed through the mirror in the corner of my eyes I got a bigger reflection that took the rest of the mirror “ am I fat?” so I decided to come back at the mirror and take a look “ ah I am fat, I am so ugly erghhhh I cant go to school like this” dashing from my bathroom door to my closet room I began to try every outfit in the closet “ this looks good but I can still see my fat meat still creeping in every corner!!!” took another outfit “ the color blue looks good on me I think it’s going to hide my fatness and show my cuteness, but it’s too short I don’t want my fat elephant legs to be seen in public!!!” as I look for an outfit, time keeps ticking and I don’t have any care until it reaches 9:00 A.M. I am not seen in school but still in my closet searching for an outfit to slim my figure down. Finally I give up promising myself not to miss school tomorrow, but the same scenario happens the next day. It’s obvious its called obsession what my cousin just did, she keeps skipping school and she lets the public take the best in her. To be that person it doesn’t mean obsession but a “Normal” thing to do repeatedly. They don’s see that angle we see. Obsession sometimes could be a pain and sometimes something that we enjoy doing. **


 * once my brother said "when I go out to eat lunch or at home I wont eat until I see my favorite lovable diet Pepsi sitting there glancing back at me allowing me to take all that thirst out. But when I say allowing to take all the thirst out it doesn’t mean I wont leave off and think that drink was only for my thirst but it’s for my obsession of Pepsi." In a normal person’s world they would think “diet Pepsi obsession isn’t that bad” but it is, the thought of obsession itself is scary. Drinking diet Pepsi every meal is said could put you into risk of having cancer, tumors, leukemia, or lymphomas^1. It's not bad drinking Pepsi but consequentially is a problem if it's every day and every meal drinking it like water. **


 * I have a friend who constantly washes her hands I asked one day " why you wash your hands all the time even though you didn't touch a thing" she ends up saying " I hate germs in my hands I feel it all in my hands I can't stop thinking about my hands until I wash it" is that an obsession? of course it is. Her hands ends up red and pale all the time she washes her hands, she is always in the sink, and she can't concentrate over anything but being careful not to have any contact with the outside world dealing with germs. A normal person would call that "germ free freak" but thinking it over again they can't help it really! **


 * I asked my mom to define obsession she said it's that feeling or desire people grow in them without awareness or accident. she also confessed that she has an obsession in cleaning things around the house also keeping things in order, and if everything is out of place she gets a headache and distraction, thinking about the house the whole time until she gets up and cleans and organizes the place, than she calms down. Obsession could be anything just anything, it expresses our feelings and behavior though things or action. Despite what we do over our obsession it doesn't leave us like a clay does when is replaces and taken out of the table. We keep come back to our obsession every time like its our last time. **


 * I have an obsession also I have to eat a piece of chocolate everyday to keep myself balanced. If I don't eat a piece of chocolate in one whole day I would feel down and have no energy. I keep saying to myself "today is my last day with chocolate" but I come back. Its like a drug feeling that I have and grew when I turned into a teenager. It happen, this obsession problem when I was stressed and depressed back in Middle School. Nobody can imagine that I am obsessed with chocolate until I am asked. Obsession sometimes is what we do without public's eyes. I wont show that I am obsessed over chocolate until I get home in my little leather comfortable couch melting that chocolate with passion. Obsession varies in definition and interpretation only a few who leaved with obsession that really know the real meaning of being obsessed or the general word obsession is. **