| He has obsessive thoughts but no compulsions, though he would do anything for the ring. |
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| One thing that may intensify this focus is the vast resources on the Internet available to feed or fuel other addictions or compulsions. |
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| They can sometimes recognize that their obsessions and compulsions are unrealistic. |
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| They understood your compulsions and thought that if nothing else they can at least cry on your shoulder. |
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| However, this knowledge is not sufficient to enable them to stop the obsessions and compulsions. |
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| Many a girl drops out even at the primary level because of social compulsions. |
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| In every scene, we can sense monsters, demons, and compulsions lurking just beneath surface. |
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| The idea has not been born out of the concern for farmers, but due to political compulsions. |
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| So the melodramatic passions, the obsessions and the compulsions, seemed to arrive by ambush, like a sucker punch. |
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| The value of the SSRIs to treat the obsessions and compulsions associated with TS remains to be resolved. |
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| One person may be plagued by private rituals or compulsions or repetitive thoughts of which no one else is aware. |
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| Assessments were made using the BDI, and clinician rated obsessions and compulsions for each individual patient. |
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| Other times, compulsions might seem less clearly related to the obsessive thought. |
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| That quirk also gave him repetition compulsions and an obsession about praying. |
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| I'm thinking, too, of the person whose weird little compulsions drive him and his relations almost mad with frustration. |
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| Rachel's obsessive compulsions are the symptoms of a depressed woman struggling to gain some control over herself and her world. |
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| The tarantella is key to this sweaty tangle of sacred and profane compulsions. |
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| Over time they become more assertive, expressing themselves as compulsions and obsessions, phobias and prejudices, neuroses and psychosomatic illnesses. |
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| But it may be that they were doing more than just following their natural compulsions or flaunting their wealth and power. |
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| When obsessions and compulsions get out of control, it is called obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
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| In addition, obsessions and compulsions related to food are common. |
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| All inexplicable fears, all compulsions, inhibitions and unwanted sensations, stem from the reactive mind. |
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| Others feel the need for a bit of encouragement, a sense that the preacher understands or better still sympathises with the compulsions of their lives. |
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| Raising the stakes, people with these sorts of abnormal compulsions tend to have high rates of recidivism, observes Davison. |
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| This type of therapy aims to challenge obsessive thought patterns and ritualized compulsions. |
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| Obsessions are accompanied by compulsions in approximately 80 percent of cases. |
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| Acting out these compulsions does not give them pleasure, but it can help them feel less anxious or distressed. |
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| However, the world has also seen the rise of new security concerns and compulsions which have an impact on the region. |
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| The ruling Congress Party has its own electoral compulsions to push the quota issue. |
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| This area of the brain tells you to perform compulsions to relieve anxiety. |
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| It is not clear, however, if they reduce the intensity of obsessions or compulsions. |
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| Third, we must address the motives and compulsions that drive States to acquire weapons of mass destruction. |
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| The obsessions and compulsions must cause marked distress, be time-consuming, or significantly interfere with social or occupational functioning. |
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| There are multiple regimes that govern and regulate migrants with different emphasis depending on the compulsions of each State. |
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| In so doing, they suggest that the conflict to which the artist alludes in the exhibition's title is a personal struggle with his own compulsions. |
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| One purpose of Karma Yoga is to free us from our compulsions and lack of understanding. |
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| But the compulsions of state politics overwhelm convictions about what should happen at the centre. The BJP, which is more centre-minded than Congress, has no inhibitions about regional tie-ups. |
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| Various versions of the memory deficit and meta-memory deficit theories of checking compulsions have circulated in the literature for over a century. |
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| In fast motion, evolution takes place, from plankton to a shoal, on to a quadruped and finally back to a human being, including all its feelings, compulsions and desires. |
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| As neuroscience nurses, we see chaos in electroencephalograms, aphasias, apraxias, intracranial pressure changes, and compulsions. |
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| Given our security compulsions and the need to guard our long borders not protected by any natural obstacles, the use of landmines forms an important part of our self-defence strategy. |
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| That is why those kinds of compulsions are addressed in this bill. |
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| Whereas compulsions in OCD are performed to reduce distress associated with obsessions, in trichotillomania the compulsive behaviours are not aimed at neutralizing obsessions. |
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| The obsessions or compulsions must be experienced as intrusive, markedly distressing, time-consuming, or interfering significantly with the person's social or occupational functioning. |
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| Imperative comprehensions, monstrous compulsions of duty which deform. |
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| The flaws of bureaucratic systems could create compulsions that have been spared smaller projects, which usually have the luxury to work in a controlled environment. |
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| Set in a lonely rooming house and bondage club, Night of the Celibate revolves around a celibate guru, from whom desperate men seek relief from their sexual compulsions. |
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| Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment. |
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