Obsessions...? | ADHD Information

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My gosh, Sassee...I just read your post to my wife...spittin' image of me!

You and I want to settle the fuss, our spouses want to forget it and move on....

ScattySarah.....this, too, is me....fixated on something...like right now...I have ordered a new computer to be shipped (mine quietly died Friday)....My parents' estate is being settled by my oldest brother, and I was pleasantly surprised to get a check in the mail that allowed me to buy a new Compaq. I am going to die before this computer arrives!!!!!! lol... Similar to when I upgraded my cellphone...followed the UPS shipment from Texas to GA....maybe 6 check-ups a day?

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F2C - I KNOW it drives him crazy and I still can't seem to let arguments go. It starts as something not too big and turns into a gigantic blow-out argument. I'm not sure why I can't let go. It's nice to know someone else is like me.

...just got a new computer monitor last month and kept checking up on the tracking, was obsessed waiting for it....then it came at a time when I wasn't home for only 10 minutes so I had to wait another day. I COULD NOT RELAX until that thing was here and set up. WHY? WHY?

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LTC1

everything. having things a certian way, doing things by a certain time, has a list that he checks twice a day...i dont know. it seems normal to me because ive grown up with this my whole life, but i also thought before that me screwing up in every single thing in my life was just a part of my genetic script. so i wonder...

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thats how my dad is & actually envious/jelous

[QUOTE=ScattySarah]Does any of you have obsessions with things? I tend to be obsessed about when I am seeing my boyfriend and what he is doing.I get so fixated on this, that I forget to worry about the right things. What ever it is I am obsessed about goes to the front of my mind and everything gets shoved to the back. I sit about obsessing over so much crap when I should really be worrying about the serious stuff. Does any one relate to this? x[/QUOTE]

Yes! If I have an argument with my husband, I am obsessed with it all day and can hardly function. I cannot think of anything else. I have to talk to him and call him and drive him crazy until it's settled, which of course makes it 10 times worse. When I'm on vacation, I am obsessed about where my keys are. I have a place in the house where I put them, and when we are on vacation, I can't put them there so I don't know where they are and I check my bag for them 100 times a day. Just one example of the millions of things I obsess about instead of doing what I need to be doing.

My gosh, Sassee...I just read your post to my wife...spittin' image of me!

You and I want to settle the fuss, our spouses want to forget it and move on....

Fryed2aCrisp38691.4694560185I'm getting obsessed with reading and concentrating on things after taking Adderall. I feel I need to be stimulated with information, the longing to want to know and study. And for the first time I actually have the patience to sit concentrate. That's good but all day?!

I am exactly the same, I cannot relax until things are how I want them to be.When me and my boyfriend argue I call him endlessly trying to make it ok, but then he gets even more annoyed. I can't work I can't focus, it's terrible.

It gets to the point where I won't go into work until we have sorted it. I cry, I shout, I get nervous. It's so stupid. I obsess over all arguements with anybody.

i frequently fail to see the forest for the trees.

i do get stuck on certain ideas. so much so, that when i'm working and putting things together(i do plumbing and heating. lots of parts, lots of going here to there, lots of planning in unique physical spaces.) i sometimes get to a problem, and can't let go of my standards or quality criteria, and can't see how to proceed.

same things happen in relationships. sometimes i can't let go and let them do 'that' in 'that way'. i get stuck there.

Does any of you have obsessions with things? I tend to be obsessed about when I am seeing my boyfriend and what he is doing.I get so fixated on this, that I forget to worry about the right things. What ever it is I am obsessed about goes to the front of my mind and everything gets shoved to the back. I sit about obsessing over so much crap when I should really be worrying about the serious stuff. Does any one relate to this? x

Are you saying this is not a normal behavior.... ( just kidding)

Along with ADHD I'm OCD. I Haven't the answers...but with meds and
therapy....I'm hoping life will get better....

Good Luck, and you are not alone!

LTC1

you have ocd along with adhd? can you tell me some symptoms? because i think my dad and his brother are this exact combo. but im not sure. my dad is such an anal neat freak. one time i looked in his sock drawer and felt disturbed. lol. it was that neatly organized. then there was this time when i was in junior high, i spilled a tiny drop of milk on the counter and i got in big trouble. BIG. im not exaggerating at all when i say tiny drop. i know i overlook things sometimes because im adhd. but i dont overlook spilled food/drinks unless its invisible to the naked eye. hes not just anal about cleanliness, but about pretty much everything. having things a certian way, doing things by a certain time, has a list that he checks twice a day...i dont know. it seems normal to me because ive grown up with this my whole life, but i also thought before that me screwing up in every single thing in my life was just a part of my genetic script. so i wonder...

Obsessed, possessed - whatever you want to call it. yeah