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Obsession is one of the more painful and distorted aspects of passion; closely associated with a range of emotions such as hate; love; joy and despair. Emotional conflict is often a feature of obsession and it is possible that an obsessive episode will encompass extremes of all four of the emotions mentioned. Baby boomers entering middle to old age will certainly have encountered obsession in one of its many forms at some time in their lives. The experience of obsession, both for the obsessed and for the target of his or her emotion, can be unpleasant and frightening. Most baby boomers have seen romantic or sexual obsession illustrated either in literature or on film and we can all relate to the fear and outrage felt as a person is stalked; pestered and generally bullied into being sociable with someone they either dislike or have no interest in. Psychological articles list other obsessive behavioral traits that might include an over developed passion for work (a person unable to relate normally to others unless they are in a work related environment - workaholics compelled to restrict every activity to work); parents who feel a targeting emotion for a child, setting their affections for their other children aside to pursue an obsessive interest in one particular child; or material obsession, which involves becoming consumed with an interest in material possessions. Obsession is simply an overwhelming and irresistible passion that excludes all else and most baby boomers have been on the receiving end of unwelcome attention from an admirer at some time, or even themselves been personally obsessed with a person or thing. Obsessions are rarely satisfied and romantic or sexual obsession might be experienced as a ‘one off’, targeting one particular person: the same feelings of obsession might not be present with previous or subsequent partners. Obsession might also become a fixed personality disorder, with every romantic or sexual relationship being conducted in the same obsessive way, leading to the relationship being terminated by the subject and occasionally, in extreme cases, involving court injunctions to prevent the obsessed person from gaining access to his or her victim. Psychological articles confirm that being the object of another person’s obsessive desires can be frightening and even life threatening if the problem is not addressed effectively. Obsession might involve a particular item or person in the life of the average baby boomer. A man might have a strange and obsessive affection for his car that he does feel for anything or anyone else to such a degree. This kind of obsessive interest in a possession might be overlooked by a partner but it is nonetheless a mild obsession, which luckily is unlikely to affect anyone else and is therefore accepted as ‘quirkiness’. Such an interest might actually intensify as each new car is acquired, to the extent that the car becomes inadequate to purpose as the owner refuses to allow certain people to travel in it and keeps the car under shelter from the rain and so on!
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