I have to smell the black pepper shaker any time I use it. Not because I'm worried that there's something wrong with it, but because black pepper smells good.
I haven’t shared this with more than like 5-6 people IRL, but I have OCD. Not self diagnosed (sucks that I have to state that). My obsessions are death/mortality/morbid thoughts in general. It’s awful and I truly would never wish this disorder on anyone.
I've been looking at this comment for a couple of minutes now, and I can't let it go.
I sometimes (at least once a day) am very aware of my mortality, the fact that I'm over half, what's the use etc. No death wish, don't get me wrong. It HAS and IS seriously influencing my day to day life, up to the point I made life decisions based on these feelings.
It’s possible! Another key component is these thoughts will also cause mild to severe anxiety. I would go talk to someone if I were you, medications have helped me immensely in taking back my life from OCD.
I thought most people do this. I do. When I was a young’un, I couldn’t have any food touching any other food and ate them one by one. I get called a freak less often with the latter habit.
I’m honestly not sure how common it is, but I don’t know anyone personally that does the same thing. It’s so normal to me but people who I don’t usually eat with will comment when they notice I have 5-6 different piles of food on my plate all containing every side ready to be eaten one by one lol
It may not be an obsession but i do have a box called "The Morgue" which just contains dead stink bugs wrapped in tissues and tape, I'm upwards of 120 now
Kpop, I suppose. I'm a guy in my early 40's so not exactly the target audience, but I love the sound (Dreamcatcher is my favorite). I started as a casual listener, but by now I'm familiar with 1st gen to current gen (4th), I've read about the history of kpop from its earliest origins in the late 1800's with the introduction of gospel-like music to Korea. It's fun, it's visual, it's aural, it's kinetic. It's great.
Almost 40 and I'm into Kpop as well! My current favorite is Dreamnote. Dreamcatcher actually came through here back in March but it was before I was listening to Kpop.
I wash my hands a lot.; it’s just something I do habitually.
Prepped the dog food? Wash my hands. Prepped the cat food? Wash my hands. Do both? Wash my hands in-between tasks because my formed habit is to wash my hands after each of those actions.
I also feel like they each deserve a clean set of hands preparing their food, so maybe I chose the wrong example.
I know pretty much everything about late 80s to early 90s Mercedes models. The W124 series in particular. It's an unhealthy obsession though, you can spend an infinite amount of money on these cars and still end up with things to fix.
Totally understandable, I just managed to break free from my car hobby, a but. Down to only 6 hobby cars. Toyota Celica and Volvl 700/900 series were the issue here. I managed to get a wire and loads of pets, no time anymore for extensive car hobby. (So down to 2 Celicas, 2 Volvo 340s and 2 780s)
cars (at it's 'height' 13, with 1 of each variant of the Toyota Celica RWD ones)
chess sets (including a 3 player one, still haven't played a game with it)
music bearers(?), records (missing 16 rpm), cassette (incl dcc, dat, 8-track), tape,... alas no wax-role
stereo/sound equipment to be able to listen to the formats.
music instuments (synthesizers and mudules, guitars (bass, electric, acoustic), trompet, french horn, clarinet and a violin somewhere)
watches
...
To many interests and I want to know how everything works and be able to use it. Get at least a tone out of the instuments, pref be able to play it)
To be honest, I like everything apart from RL humans. (Especially crowds, with >5 counting as a crowd for me) Internet was a safe place, but RL entered as well. (Reddit can take it's time to die, but it looks like it won't)
I collect special interests, usually related generally to weird history and hobbies. Currently my obsessions are M/M historical romance novels (I've read/listened to ~60 this year so far), knitting lace shawls, and succulents, but only two specific genuses (Haworthia and Crassula). These things take up all my non-work waking hours and most of my waking thoughts.