What special interests do you get when you're very stressed?

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I obsess about optometry and Sacha Baron Cohen movies when I'm stressed out. They're great distractions for me. I eventually get bored of those topics, so they're not around all the time.

Serial Netflix watching. Usually Star Trek or Haven or Continuum. It is grounding.

Before I moved I also developed a habit of going to Walmart to the kids section to look at and sit with the plastic dinosaur models there.

When stressed I will usually do one of two things:
A) I will play club/dance music and dance/spin while delving into somethings that I find relaxing, usually dog breeds

B) my interest in cultural anthropology takes a more scientific turn and I study genetics and forensic anthropology (when my stress level is EXTREME I distract myself with the more morbid/wild side of this and sociology)

Often food related - either exclusive obsessions with specific cuisines and cooking methods, or with restrictive dieting for specific purposes.

Discovering new food, I really enjoy just eating all my favourite foods when I'm a bit down or overwhelmed but I try to control this a little, listening to music and binge watching anime. ~

If stressed, I have difficulty focusing on any special interest enough to benefit from it.

I find that too the only SI I can get into is listening to my favourite songs over and over again when I am stress. When I really stressed I stim x 1000!