Ever been so obsessed with something.....

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...that you start to forget or don't know what other things are?

I lose track of time and that I am hungry, need to sleep, etc... Though some things like nature calling, I have no choice but to stop what I am doing and fulfill those needs.

Sometimes when i watch a movie, the movie ends and it feels like I've not seen the world for a very long time.

Happens with many other things actually, when I'm reading a book it just flows, I forget I'm even reading words.

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Yep ..that´s totally me

When I play my favourite video games, when I'm on this website, and when I'm searching on the internet for polls/infromation about different disorders, I find that I lose track of time ("Oh goodness, it's 2am" )

many times I have found my self missing major amounts of hours while being lost in an interest,
but it seems the older I get the less I become so hyper-focused on things,
sometimes I miss it.

Almost every night, I get online at 8 PM-ish, and completely lose track of time. Often I realize all the noise next to my computer is my alarm to get up for the day. Too often I get no sleep or too little sleep.

I try to avoid it if I can, because it interferes with my routine. Sometimes it doesn't work, although "obsession" is never a word I would use for my situation. "Fixation" would be better.

I get so obsessed I forget things about my job...then my bosses and co-workers get frustrated with me. Then the more I try to focus on my job, the more I lose focus!

God this has been nuts,
every since my Child custody dispute broke out I cant think about anything else.
wanting this child that I now have has been a life long obsession,
so now that I have him I have been nothing but the best of parent to him,
but now my ex is trying to strip him from me, god this is driving me nuts,
while my child is not in my care alls I can think about is that issue,
I can hardly function at work or any other place,
I can NOT keep from thinking about it no matter how hard I try.
many times I wish I could just pack it up from work and go home and have a meltdown

let me start by saying i get very irritable when i'm really hungry.

when i was younger i would spend hours doing stuff like play lego or whatever i was obsessed with (can't think of anything other than lego) for hours and forget to eat. when i finished with whatever i was doing i was HUNGRY. my mom remembers me being ridiculous, i'd disappear for hours, then reemerge cranky, irritable, and hungry.

now my hunger doesn't affect me as much but i also try to remember to grab a snack when i get up to pee.

i wouldnt really say that i forget about other things, i just block em out, even if im really hungry or tired, ill just carry on with whatever it is im obsessed with.