I know this is going to sound weird and make me seem like a total *******, but I think I have an addiction. What exactly I'm addicted to, I don't know. Basically, whenever I am told I am going to get something, for example, last month my uncle said he would give me his PSP, I literally cannot stop thinking about that thing until I get it. Imagine you really need to pee, you're locked in a bathroom, right in front of he toilet but you are NOT allowed to pee. That's what this feels like. Constantly in the back of my mind is "psp, psp, psp, psp, psp" for the past month and I can't do anything about it, my uncle lives pretty far away so i cant just go and get it. I'm starting to get so annoyed, this has happened to me a lot before. Somebody tell me how I can just stop thinking about this because nothing has worked so far.
It sounds like OCD to me. Obsessing over the thing you are going to get, acting on the compulsion to make sure that you will get it, and it obviously is at a level that bothers you enough to post here. I would look into seeing psychiatrist or therapist over it.
Everything is on a continuum. I've been diagnosed OCD and I'm just somewhat perfectionistic. But you could also say that it is just natural to want to do things correctly. I honestly can't say anything for sure based off the one post, but I wouldn't write it out just because it isn't one of the normal OCD tendencies or isn't at a more extreme case.
Gotta agree with Ben here, you're just excited for things, it's just good spirit really, like waiting for christmas, it's a present you really want.
It's more than excitement. I wouldn't go as far as ocd, but I literally have not stopped thinking about it. I can't focus on anything else.
Well, I will agree that maybe you should see a therapist or a psychiatrist. Especially since you don't know what it is. They can help identify the problem and give you the tools to work with it.
If the problem is he is taking too long too send it, he might have just forgot. Honestly in that case, I think you should call him up, and just tell him how excited you are for it, and thank him.
Sounds like you don't have a lot to keep you occupied or you're not content with whatever it is you spend your free time doing. I'd suggest you find a hobby or activity you really enjoy doing so you're not wasting all of your time wishing or waiting for something better than what you already have in front of you.
I'm the same way, at first i thought I was a terrible person for wanting things, but then I said **** it, I am who I am. Now I have no shame in my overwhelming greed. For example, in sophomore year the first six weeks were not about school at all, they were entirely about modding my ps2 and playing kh2fm. When I finally got it I missed a week of school. Sure it may not have been the best thing to have that constantly on my mind, but I couldn't help it, I was excited. There's no shame in being excited.
