Hyperfixation on People you don’t Know

[Kate747]

Has anyone else found themselves hyerfixated on a celebrity or a celebrity’s relationship. I don’t know these people and would never contact them directly or ever try to meet them, yet I find myself truly feeling distressed when I think they have broken up. I don’t want to care…it certainly has nothing to do with my life, but I’ve followed their relationship for over four years and for some stupid reason I feel so invested in them making it in the long term. If you’ve experienced this, have you found anything that helps?

[lml885]

YES, this is one of my main struggles-hyperfixation/obsession with people I don’t know on social media as well as people I barely know like online friends. I can obsess abut them for years. i even think about people from high school still. I also have BPD so I “split” and will think they are great and cool but then think they are awful when they do something i don’t like. It’s a real problem for me.

[Kate747 in reply to lml885]

it’s so troubling. I don’t want to care about them or the status of their relationship. It has nothing to do do with me, but I still find my emotions affected by the status of their relationship. I’m so sick of it.

[Celestialbird]

Yes. I’ve had to quit some social media just to distance myself from those kind of obsessions. It’s very uncomfortable and very depressing. It was hard at first, but that part of my OCD has calmed a bit.

[Kate747 in reply to Celestialbird]

I just wish I didn’t care about people I don’t even I know. Literally it can affect my mood…I know how ridiculous it is, but logic doesn’t seem to apply to OCD. I’ve been following this couple in social media for years, so their possible break up saddens me.