{"id":36,"date":"2012-09-19T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-09-19T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:49:24","slug":"obsessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/2012\/09\/19\/obsessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt can be a song you can\u2019t get out of your head, or that of the more clinical realm,\u201d says Dr. Larry Sensenig.
\nThe girl that is constantly picking apart her reflection in mirrors and windows, another that paints her nails every other day, and yet another who has anything and everything having to do with penguins ranging from stuffed animal penguins to handy dandy penguin decorated duct-tape. What do these three have in common?
\nActually, 80 percent of the population admits to having something in common with these three women, intrusive thoughts, and whether male or female, we are all equally at risk.
\nObsession is defined as \u201ca thought or image that keeps intruding into a person\u2019s consciousness,\u201d in the 9th<\/sup> Edition of Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives, a standard textbook for psychology professors and students.
\n\u201cWe all have obsessions,\u201d says Dr. Sensenig, a Chair of the Psychology department and Professor at Morningside College since 1974. \u201cHaven\u2019t you ever been driving away from your house and then thought to yourself, \u201cDid I shut the garage door? Did I forget something?\u201d
\nLittle obsessions like these occur everyday, and do not need treatment. It is at the other end of the spectrum, when obsessions become diagnosed as OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
\nWhen an individual has OCD they experience extreme distress from their intrusive thoughts, and deal with these thoughts by having rituals.
\nTLC television network is a host to the show \u201cMy Crazy Obsession,\u201d which takes the viewers into people\u2019s homes and introduces them to these people\u2019s obsessions and how extremity of it.
\nThere is a family that boasts of approximately 5,000 dolls, a woman head-over-heels for the color pink, and a \u201csqueaky clean couple whose idea of a date night is admiring their collection of washing machines,\u201d according to TLC\u2019s description of the show.
\nWhat is it that triggers these obsessions?
\nThe girl that is constantly seeking out her reflection may have been made fun of as a child for having food in her teeth, or possibly even a bad haircut. Maybe she didn\u2019t wear \u201cstyle-ish\u201d clothes one day, or had toilet paper stuck to her shoe.
\nWhatever it may have been, there was probably an event from which her obsession stems.
\nSame with the girl who paints her nails every-other day, and the other with her penguins. Who knows exactly where these obsessions stemmed from, but these are their ways of dealing with their \u201cunwanted intrusive thoughts,\u201d a.k.a. obsession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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