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There were all these people with Parkinson’s disease who started becoming compulsive gamblers.
Your Brain Makes You a Different Person Every Day - Issue 91: The Amazing Brain|Steve Paulson|October 14, 2020|Nautilus
Other research and reporting suggest the pandemic has exacerbated symptoms for people with disordered eating, substance use disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and other diagnoses.
What mental health professionals have learned six months into pandemic care|Marion Renault|October 8, 2020|Popular Science
His detail seeking in our meetings is compulsive and a little nuts.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sex and passion; compulsive, life-changing, soul-altering sex, all to be made more explicit than he had done in the past.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Compulsive writing, or hypergraphia, is a well-known, if uncommon, symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.
The Seizure Medication That Turns You Into a Poet|Cat Ferguson|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I think one of the main issues would be that there may be a subgroup of people who may run into problems with compulsive use.
Does Porn Cause Brain Shrinkage In Men?|Emily Shire|May 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sunday came and I was in better spirits; things were settling down, although there was that compulsive gum-chewing habit.
After War: Anger, Panic, and Sometimes Peace|Benjamin Tupper|June 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This word we have already defined as an unduly insistent and compulsive thought, habit of mind, or tendency to action.
Why Worry?|George Lincoln Walton, M.D.
In the forefront of this group was John Rogers, whose hostility to the deist was articulate and compulsive.
A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729)|Anthony Collins
How can you come out from your partial dogmas to enter Truth and find it alone dogmatic and compulsive?
Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI.|Various
Years ago the elder Pitt urged upon his countrymen the compulsive invocation, "Be one people."
New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2|Various
Compulsive ideas are ideas which intrude, recur, and persist despite reason and will.
Applied Psychology for Nurses|Mary F. Porter
British Dictionary definitions for compulsive
compulsive
/ (kəmˈpʌlsɪv) /
adjective
relating to or involving compulsion
noun
psychiatryan individual who is subject to a psychological compulsion