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The foods people hyperfixate on tend to be more palatable foods, like candy and junk food, as well as comfort and convenience foods that are easy to prepare, such as prepackaged and frozen meals.
Hyperfocus may in some cases also be symptomatic of a psychiatric condition. In some cases, it is referred to as perseveration [2] —an inability or impairment in switching tasks or activities ("set-shifting"), [8] or desisting from mental or physical response repetition (gestures, words, thoughts) despite absence or cessation of a stimulus.
Despair by Edvard Munch (1894) captures emotional detachment seen in Borderline Personality Disorder. [1] [2]In psychology, emotional detachment, also known as emotional blunting, is a condition or state in which a person lacks emotional connectivity to others, whether due to an unwanted circumstance or as a positive means to cope with anxiety.
Repetition compulsion is the unconscious tendency of a person to repeat a traumatic event or its circumstances. This may take the form of symbolically or literally re-enacting the event, or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to occur again.
A human with a particularly high measure of SPS is considered to have "hypersensitivity", or be a highly sensitive person (HSP). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The terms SPS and HSP were coined in the mid-1990s by psychologists Elaine Aron and her husband Arthur Aron , who developed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) questionnaire by which SPS is measured ...
Body weight can change weekly or even daily. A randomized controlled trial of more than 3,000 people showed that weight fluctuates, on average, 0.35% within each week (from weekdays to weekends). ...
Control freak is a colloquialism that is usually employed to describe a person obsessed with performing tasks in a way that they perceive as correct. A control freak can become distressed when someone causes a deviation in the way that they prefer to perform tasks. [1]
You might not think that simply trying to get a dog’s attention wouldn’t be too difficult, but when your dog’s hyper-fixating on something, getting their attention can be pretty tricky.