What the team found was that these obsessive negative thought patterns were linked to an increase in cognitive decline and aggregation of amyloid beta proteins – a brain protein that's involved in Alzheimer's disease.
Jealous, resentful, compulsive, obsessive, secretive and obstinate.
INTRICATE PATTERNS Busy, highly-detailed doodles are often drawn by people with an obsessive nature, who simply will not let go of their ambitions or loved ones.
But this need with wanting to know everything and to make sure he got re-elected became obsessive.
I think that's what makes people so obsessive over it.
I think that's what makes people so obsessive over it.
Body dysmorphia (BDD) is a mental health condition (and a type of obsessive compulsive disorder) in which a person becomes obsessed with thoughts about perceived flaws.
Sarah continues: "Each dad will experience postnatal depression differently but the symptoms can be similar to those found amongst new mums and can include: Feeling very low, tired and lethargic; a sense of inadequacy or inability to cope; feeling guilty or unable to bond with their baby; having obsessive fears about their baby's health, or about themselves and other members of the family.
But because he was so obsessive when it came to selecting furnishings, it remained mostly barren, lacking beds or chairs or couches.
Elizabeth Holmes made meals for him, trying to keep up with his obsessive diets.
Jobs's dietary habits became even more obsessive when he read Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret, an early twentieth-century German-born nutrition fanatic.
Jealousy reveals deep-seeded insecurity, low self-esteem and can be a sign of an obsessive disorder.
Excessive punctuation use might also be a sign that you have a slightly obsessive personality.
The word is thought to have first originated with Enimen's 2000 song of the same name - about an obsessive love affair.
As with drugs, the team found that love can trigger reward signals in the brain and can cause euphoria – but, it can also lead to cravings, obsessive behaviour, and grief when a relationship ends.
Duhigg writes about researchers at MIT who studied the most productive people at a recruiting firm and found that they were "obsessive, in fact, about trying to explain the world to themselves and their colleagues as they went about their days.
And remember, you don't have to become an expert or obsessive meditator.
"The word obsessive is an understatement," says Alain Villeneuve, 48, a patent attorney in Chicago at global law firm Vedder Price who has run 10 marathons and competed in seven Ironman 70.
"If they have cancer, they're going to be more obsessive about following all the rules and doing all the things they're supposed to do.
"If they have cancer, they're going to be more obsessive about following all the rules and doing all the things they're supposed to do.
