How obsessive are you?

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If I enjoy an activity or conversation I can go on for hours and hours and hate interruption. My obsessiveness is event everyday of my life, especially in my special interests. These interests often get in the way of life and lead to procrastination. However I often work faster and more efficiently if put under the pressure of a deadline. In an argument, I never stop until the other side more or less admits to what I knew all along or if the other person simply gives up. If something's on my mind, I pursue it to no end, including ideological arguments. If I want something, I can't get it off my mind until I do something about it. If the goal seems within reach, I do whatever possible to obtain it. I constantly think of strategies I can use to have what I want or need. I have gotten past many pointless rules by kindly explaining how the policy doesn't benefit me or the other person. In certain circumstances, I can formulate arguments of how the other person benefits or at least isn't hurt by it. I also appeal to their conscience. I am relentless in explaining and won't stop until my goal is completed. I use rational reasoning to have what I need. I don't care how long it takes as long as I have what I want or need.

Lol, just as much as you are Timeisdead!
I do all I can to be able to continue with my special interests as much as I can. I dont eat I dont sleep I just keep going if I hav the chance. Recently I was into something which I put a strict deadline on. I was extremely determined to keep this deadline so I was focused in 24 hours - in a ROW!

Unfortunately that was a very bad idea beause I missed to check my mail and by this missed an EXTREMELY important doctors appointment
Now my future and money supply and basically everything is at stake because it turned out to be impossible to get a new appointment as fast as I would need....

ooops...

I suspect that this feeling wont go away. Forced to deal with it, the story of my life. Now at least there's rhyme and reason.

I find that my anxiety and my Autism mix into a "wonderful" form of worrying and obsessing about stuff, especially school. I also find myself wanting to do one thing - play one video game, read a book, etc, and I don't want to do anything else. It's random when I get this, and it drives me nuts and I think about it constantly if I can't do it. I don't have any special interests though, I never really did. I obsessed about different fascinations, but they would last weeks to months.

In the middle of a highly intense special interest? Very.

I have given myself repetitive-motion injuries, spent days in the same spot, and forgotten to eat occasionally when wrapped up in special interests. I've gone from high-school level knowledge to post-graduate level in a matter of weeks. I've created quilt-size crocheted afghans, bed-size quilts, and Renaissance-era dresses in a few days. I regularly forget to sleep, and go to bed when I find I am dizzy from the lack of sleep. Usually what stops me is that I have needed to use the toilet for an hour or so and am in danger of wetting my pants... and then I may simply go right back to it after!

So... I'm very obsessive.

Oh, I just re-read this and realized it sounds very much like a bipolar mania... I should reassure you guys that it isn't. I haven't got any of the emotional effects; I don't feel unusually energetic or confident or anything; just very, very interested. It's not like I don't need to eat or sleep; it's just that I don't notice the signals until they're very obvious. So you needn't worry that I will add bipolar to my ever-growing list of diagnoses. I have to be sure to mention this to psychiatrists when I am telling them what it feels like to be obsessed with something, or they will start reaching for their prescription pads and thinking lithium.

My other half says I get "hooked into certain behaviours" and it completley dominates to the point where it absorbs me in "every waking moment to where there is nothing else and no one's included".
This could be remodeling the house to studying a particular subject of interest or just anything to where it gets driven into the ground.

I am so obsessive, I really have no life outside my obsessions. I really wish I could change this.

many times I've only noticed that I was hungry because of being light-headed, and when I don't get enough sleep I get realy cold, otherwise I would probably end up going a few nights in a row without sleep

The last time I became very obsessive was last weekend. I spent all day (Friday and Saturday) in the same spot, working obsessively. I felt so well I did not consider any consequences. It was highly visual work. That Sunday, I suffered eyestrain headache, nausea, anxiety and overload. I was bedbound for a couple of days.

I am relentless when pursuing justice. I have undergone one lengthy, extremely stressful, complaints procedure in the last year and won, and am on the verge of another victory concerning one in an unrelated area. In the latter case, they are trying to involve as much delay, "BS" and bureaucracy as possible, hoping I will go away. It will never work, though, because I do not know how to give up.

EDIT: Just found out that I won the 2nd case too!

Im quite obsessive. I get people obsessions which isnt a good thing. So Im always having to force myself to overcome my obessions. Once that happens, Im left dry craving the next obsession. Then I find it, hang on. Hate to say it, the fixation almost becomes my lifeline.

My hardcore obsessions vanished away I miss them