Rehab

I have numerous half-finished posts I've neglected to acknowledge that are labeled as "drafts." I just haven't been able to express myself well in the last few weeks. There are all the lame normal reasons, of course - it's my last fall here, I'm starting to feel nostalgic and don't want to leave... but there are others unfortunately.

I told myself I would stay away from certain activities this semester because I'm starting to understand that my personality is passionately obsessive. Not creepy-obsessive (hopefully), but when I latch on to an emotion, I can't seem to pry myself away from it. It's attached. The American Heritage Dictionary (by way of Dictionary.com) defines obsessive as, "excessive in degree or nature," and I think that's just what it is. It's this excess of emotion that is difficult for me to control, and I almost always indulge.

But of course not even a week after I said I wouldn't, I did, and subsequently I've been struggling ever since. I get on these emotional highs that like its' narcotic brethren, is addictive and a horrible let down once the thrill is over. Do they have hotlines or therapy sessions for this kind of addiction - the emotional kind?