obsessive compulsion
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My response to the letter was part of a behavioural pattern: an obsessive compulsion to worry about the most trifling of day‑to‑day challenges.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2019
As a kindergarten teacher and failed poet in Sara Colangelo’s remake of the 2015 Israeli film of the same name, Maggie Gyllenhaal gives the year’s most anxiety-inducing performance, embodying obsessive compulsion and intellectual unease.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2019
But the same focused devotion — or obsessive compulsion — drives each painter’s art.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2017
Rowe’s younger self spends most of the book beating herself up, which her current counterpart draws on to deftly illustrate the panic, incessant anxiety, and rote repetition that accompanied her brand of obsessive compulsion.
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2017
What motivates someone, other than obsessive compulsion, to want to replay a game with the exact same missions, locale and stranded survivors that Greene faced in last year's game is beyond me.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2011
