“Are you neat? Do you like to keep everything organized, orderly and tidy? While these are great character traits in the normal course for both your work environment and your home environment, they can become confining when taken to an extreme.”
From article Do You Want to Understand More About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?, by Bertil Hjert, author of the Panic Goodbye program.
“The common wisdom of therapy has it that obsessions are always bad things… But suppose a person is caught up thinking day and night about her current painting or about the direction she wants to take her art?
“Thoughts about painting ‘intrude’ as she balances her checkbook or prepares her shopping list. She can hardly wait to get to her studio and her rhythms are more like Picasso’s on painting jags than like the rhythms of a ‘normal’ person. This artist is obsessed in an everyday sense of the word–and more than happy to be so!”
From In Praise of Positive Obsessions, by Eric Maisel, PhD
[Photo: Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) as a brilliant detective with obsessive compulsive disorder, in the tv series 'Monk' - trying to avoid the “unclean” rungs while climbing a ladder.]
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From article Do You Want to Understand More About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?, by Bertil Hjert, author of the Panic Goodbye program.
“The common wisdom of therapy has it that obsessions are always bad things… But suppose a person is caught up thinking day and night about her current painting or about the direction she wants to take her art?
“Thoughts about painting ‘intrude’ as she balances her checkbook or prepares her shopping list. She can hardly wait to get to her studio and her rhythms are more like Picasso’s on painting jags than like the rhythms of a ‘normal’ person. This artist is obsessed in an everyday sense of the word–and more than happy to be so!”
From In Praise of Positive Obsessions, by Eric Maisel, PhD
[Photo: Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) as a brilliant detective with obsessive compulsive disorder, in the tv series 'Monk' - trying to avoid the “unclean” rungs while climbing a ladder.]
creative obsession, anxiety disorders, healing anxiety, anxiety relief programs, anxiety relief products