Is it normal that i get super obsessed with a certain thing, just for a while?

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Okay so this has happened to me pretty much all my life, and I'm just wondering why this happens, or if it happens to anyone else. So I will constantly get extremely unhealthily obsessed with a certain thing. Be it a book, movie, band, show, person, hobby, language, anything. And I will spend ALL my time thinking about it, researching it, seeing as much of it as I possibly can. It's an addiction really. Then after a few months of being hardcore obsessed, I'll suddenly get bored and forget about it completely. Then I'll find something else to obsess over, and the cycle begins again.

I could swear while I'm obsessed with a certain thing that "this is the one". I swear I will be a fan forever, but then I ALWAYS end up just forgetting about it later. This has caused me to start up many hobbies, take classes, practice it to no end, and then drop it completely after a while.

Or I'll become obsessed with a certain band. Then I'll watch every single interview or video of them that I can possibly find, I will have their songs on repeat and listen to them ALL the time, I will buy ANYTHING that has to do with them. Albums, posters, merch, anything with their name on it. I will learn all their songs and spend all my money on them, then I'll just get bored of them and end up either giving all the stuff away, or throwing it away. It's such a waste because I get a lot of band obsessions but they usually only last a few months.

I don't understand why this happens to me and I really wish I knew how to control it.

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  • Pika-girl
    9 years ago

    I feel you.

    I was obsessed with Hetalia for only 8 months. A week ago, I moved on to Homestuck... *sigh* My old fangirl self died and lived again... And I was just starting a new Hetalia fan-manga... :( Now I don't feel like doing it...

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  • Cuntsiclestick
    9 years ago

    I used to do something similar as a kid. Some of my obsessions over the years were manga books, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z(and Gohan from said anime), certain WWE wrestlers, Shipping Spongebob and Sandy(Spandy), Naruto, The Used, and few other things that don't matter now.

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  • flailyhailey
    9 years ago

    I've done it ever since I was a kid. Super obsessed with astronomy, then ancient egypt, then various mythologies. Yep. It's just waves of different passions. Totally fine, unless it interrupts priorities in your life - work, family, etc.

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