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The Martin House’s 12 ft by 15 ft bursar’s office, as it was called, was designed to accommodate the owner’s compulsive work habits.
HOW FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DESIGNED A DISTRACTION-FREE HOME OFFICEANNE QUITOOCTOBER 24, 2020QUARTZ
Determined, stubborn, and tireless, she was motivated by what she described as an “almost compulsive desire to be busy and useful.”
“I BURNED WITH INDIGNATION”KATIE MCLEANOCTOBER 20, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
This medication raised their levels of dopamine, which helped with the motor problems, but it also turned them into compulsive gamblers.
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There were all these people with Parkinson’s disease who started becoming compulsive gamblers.
YOUR BRAIN MAKES YOU A DIFFERENT PERSON EVERY DAY - ISSUE 91: THE AMAZING BRAINSTEVE PAULSONOCTOBER 14, 2020NAUTILUS
Other research and reporting suggest the pandemic has exacerbated symptoms for people with disordered eating, substance use disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and other diagnoses.
WHAT MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HAVE LEARNED SIX MONTHS INTO PANDEMIC CAREMARION RENAULTOCTOBER 8, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE
This word we have already defined as an unduly insistent and compulsive thought, habit of mind, or tendency to action.
WHY WORRY?GEORGE LINCOLN WALTON, M.D.
In the forefront of this group was John Rogers, whose hostility to the deist was articulate and compulsive.
A DISCOURSE CONCERNING RIDICULE AND IRONY IN WRITING (1729)ANTHONY COLLINS
How can you come out from your partial dogmas to enter Truth and find it alone dogmatic and compulsive?
Years ago the elder Pitt urged upon his countrymen the compulsive invocation, "Be one people."
Compulsive ideas are ideas which intrude, recur, and persist despite reason and will.
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY FOR NURSESMARY F. PORTER
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