How would you get over an obsession that was consuming your life?

Predictions? Are we talking about futurism in literature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism#Futurism_in_literature or something else? If I felt that an obsession was consuming my life I would first look at the interest. Is it good for me in the sense that I believe it to be healthy. Certainly, some interests are not. Some interests for example can be very depressing or demanding and still others stressful though there can be out weighted positive things too. If I did see a primary negative aspect to my interest and only I can really be a judge of this then I would not want to loose my obsession for it by resolving to create another. If I considered my interest to be reasonable then I would need to look at the other possibility. The issue then is not my interest but merely my obsession connected with it and therefore the time and energy being applied. I would need to find a way to time manage it and devote my energy to other things as well that is priory driven. I hope this has answered and in some small way helped.

I have an obsession that has lasted most of my adult life, in patches, to find a way of beating the odds in four footed critter races (greyhounds in this incarnation). I find it ironic that it took me till 66 and being in too poor health to really enjoy the fruits of my labour to finally work it out. Bah! But when I am in research mode (looking through and analysing past results) I will let everything else go until things become urgent. Fortunately that is no longer necessary, but that hasn't stopped me trying to "tweak" the system (usually costing myself money in so doing). Actually, I just had the thought that writing this down may help to kick me out of the current round of obsession and get me back on the winning path. Mind you, the losing path consists of the last week where I had only my second weekly loss in over 5 months, and it less than $20 lol. But considering the 45 odd years I spent on this, I doubt that I would be encouraging anyone else's obsessions. Lash

Since I'm older, with no kids at home anymore, I have a lot of time on my hands on my 3 days off. I've mentioned before I tend to be obsessive/compulsive sometimes. I can spend an entire weekend watching an NCIS marathon, or playing Harvest Moon on the wii. What breaks my obsession, is the repetitiveness and the point when I am overloaded and bored with doing the same thing over and over and need a change. LOL Not quite the same as what you are talking about, but my compulsions do have a limit.

I never had that bad obsession. I did want to get pregnant while I was married and kept praying for that to happen and that the child would be born healthy, but that is not an obsession. If you have a bad obsession the best thing is to put your resources on someplace or some other thing that is not so bad, or get so busy you have not time.

I think that people need to things in moderation. When they do them excessively it becomes an obsession and isn't healthy. I had an obsession. It took me almost three years to get over it. How did I do it? I realized it wasn't a good thing. I changed my schedule and let the obsession move further and further down on my list of things to do. Before long I forgot I had this obsession.