Compulsive Behavior, | ADHD Information

Compulsive behavior - I have trouble with this, and if given no other purpose to follow I will take things to the extreem,

Like when I was not working, I would play video games, actually got hooked on Mario 3 and it took me a month more then 8 hours a day to turn the game over! I am so obsessed with collecting all of the coins and getting the highest scores possible. Not just rush through and beat the game, but be the absolute best!

At work, if someone shows the least bit of interest when I am counseling them on credit issues - I always go the extra mile to give them the "whole run down - start to finish" of how they should do things - steps to follow to obtain credit reports, or dispute with the CRA (Credit Reporting Agency). I mean that I never get tired of going to the begining and explaining every key detail every time over and over. I try to anticipate everything they need to know and give them a heads up ahead of time.

I am the same way with music, if I find a song that day that I like I am going to play it over & over & over, I have actually ruiened music disks from the ware.  The same with movies, once I find one that I like I watch it to the point of everyone automatically leaving the house when they see me put on of my favorits in. I have them memoriezed.

About anything that I become interested in, becomes an obsession, where most people would be burned out, I just can't let it go.

Anyone else have this problem?

 

YESSSSSS!

YES!

my husband said that i was obssessive!!! my whole life before i knew i had this i used to just say "i'm passionate" "i have convictions"

LOL

he says i'm overfocused and obssessed with my disorder.

i've told i beat a dead horse often.

and i guess especially if i don't feel acknowledged about  a particular pet point of mine..i will give them an unrelenting barrage of information that 'should' wipe out any doubts in their minds about the veracity of my position.

so needless to say:

i've gotten into trouble. i once called my best friend at six in the morning b/c she had mistakenly misunderstood the geography of iraq and it BUGGED me b/c she wouldn't listen to me about it...

i emailed her a map too.

LOL

sumi

LOL, when I explain credit to people I do just that give visual examples to show them how some formula works, or how something should look. Most of the time I am just rambling to hear myself talk for my own gain - repetition to remember what I am doing.

I also found that I have a visual memory.. like if I have driven to a new place just once, then maybe 10 years later, I can drive back to that same place - weird.

Most times I have to keep repeating things to remember them, I use to take spelling tests and cram, by repeating over and over the word, go in and take the test, and walk out of the class have someone ask me how to speall one of the words and it totally eluded me, like I exhausted all of my efforts and now it is gone! grrr

But the problem is, unless it is of a real interest to me, I am not going to study to be the best at it, it is one way or the other! Either I am obsessed with learning everything, or no amount of pushing is going to get me there... unfortunately there are more things in the latter section then the 1st.

 

 

 

 

check out the posts on hyper-focus! I think you will see yourselves in all of them!