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  2. Obsessive love disorder - Wikipedia

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    Obsessive love disorder (OLD) is a proposed [by whom?] condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person, sometimes with an inability to accept failure or rejection. Symptoms include an inability to tolerate any time spent without that person, obsessive fantasies surrounding the person ...

  3. Relationship obsessive–compulsive disorder - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, relationship obsessive–compulsive disorder (ROCD) is a form of obsessive–compulsive disorder focusing on close intimate relationships. [1] [2] Such obsessions can become extremely distressing and debilitating, having negative impacts on relationships functioning.

  4. Social rejection - Wikipedia

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    Rejection and isolation were found to affect levels of pain following an operation [77] as well as other physical forms of pain. [63] MacDonald and Leary theorize that rejection and exclusion cause physical pain because that pain is a warning sign to support human survival. As humans developed into social creatures, social interactions and ...

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  6. Obsessive–compulsive disorder - Wikipedia

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    Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function. [1] [2] [7]

  7. Avoidant personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g., self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive coping method. [1]

  8. Why does Hollywood keep making sequels? A new book explains ...

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    Go to the movies any weekend and you're almost certain to find a sequel, a reboot or a film based on a book, a game or some other known property in the lineup.

  9. Shunning - Wikipedia

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    Social rejection has been established to cause psychological damage and has been categorized as torture [1] or a low-cost punishment for failed cooperation. [2] Mental rejection is a more individual action, where a person subconsciously or willfully ignores an idea, or a set of information related to a particular viewpoint.