compulsive

He’s a compulsive name-dropper, peppering his speeches with boring stories whose only point is to exaggerate his relationship to famous people.

She turned to compulsive eating “so my body could become so big it would never be broken again.”

A compulsive diarist, Odell observed that his "anguish" about the news was affecting his day-to-day relationships.

There is plenty of cold-hearted, merciless darkness, compulsive behavior and, of course, ill-fated love of all kinds.

It’s not only that Norma symbolizes our corrosive need for attention — “an archetypal figure that embodies our compulsive search for fame and acceptance,” as he puts it.