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Spain's soaring borrowing costs have become a national obsession since the crisis.
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Opinion - Making small talk about the weather is our national obsession.
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This is arguably the year in which internet self-obsession reached new heights.
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Our work ethic and obsession with education make us almost ideal citizens.
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A Franco-German war is therefore, for the Soviet dictatorship, a pathological obsession.
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Republicans view the law as excessive government intrusion into the healthcare market.
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The bank has so far denied responsibility for the Bangladesh Bank intrusion.
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The first step the industry is tackling is intrusion detection, said Lanctot.
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Now-weare safe here and perfectly free of any danger of intrusion.
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He liked it, too; he wasn't ready for the intrusion of reality.
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More of a brief, morbidimpulse, an appendix to a short history of humiliation.
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To join in or collaborate or act with others is a metaphysically morbidimpulse.
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Her impassivity over his leaving their bed inspired in him the morbidimpulse to oversell his desire to return to it.
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The morbidimpulse which forces ''zum fabulieren'' is bound up with the desire to play the role of the person depicted.
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It was indeed a morbidimpulse which had brought him thither, but now that he was here he could not leave.
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It was his fixed idea-uneideefixe, as he himself said.
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He never doubted Claridge Pasha's return; it was une ideefixe.
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The ideefixe of the British public, fishermen, M.P.
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At twenty-five she had an ideefixe.
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It suggests that our country is in the grip of an ideefixe, and has grown immune both to new experience and to new thought.
Usage of intrusive thought in English
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Half irritably he dismissed the intrusivethought.
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I get trapped inside an intrusivethought.
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And then even Grave stopped taking bids and rubbed hard at her forehead, as though bothered by some intrusivethought.
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A behavioural measure of intrusivethought required participants to control their attention during two focus periods separated by a 5min period of self-referential worry.
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Results: In experiment 1 replacing personal intrusivethoughts took longer than replacing neutral thoughts.
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Task performance was unrelated to individual differences in intrusivethoughts.
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I'm losing my appetite, massive anxiety attacks, and I'm having some intense intrusivethoughts.
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What must it be like to be the focus of such intrusivethoughts and presumptuous narratives?
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Anxiety and intrusivethoughts can make things even trickier when it comes to dating and sex.
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Experimental tasks allowing more focused study of the processes involved in controlling intrusivethoughts may be needed.
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So if yours were already heightened, now you can be having massive panic attacks and intrusivethoughts.
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It was almost 19 years to the day since I discovered that I could not ignore my intrusivethoughts.
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Longer term effects can include sadness, suicidal thoughts, not wanting to go out, insomnia, non-enjoyment of relationships and intrusivethoughts.
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Individuals with more intrusivethoughts had higher cortisol levels concurrently and prospectively, but these relationships did not vary by group.
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Besides guilt and shame, it can lead to rage, depression, social withdrawal and intrusivethoughts such as flashbacks and nightmares.