‘The health-obsessed new regime wants to measure kids' height, weight and waistlines to make sure they are morally-upstanding citizens-to-be who have resisted the temptation to gorge on evil junk food. Symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Examples of obsessive or compulsive behaviors include: Having unwanted thoughts, impulses.
‘In our health-obsessed age the revelation that young people think little about cancer has generated handwringing.’ Having OCD means having obsessions, compulsions, or both.
‘In these health-obsessed days, it is barely possible to pick up a daily newspaper without reading that Britain is working too hard and that thousands - perhaps millions - of us are suffering from work-induced stress.’.
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‘The day after Easter a guy in my office brought in a giant shopping bag full of candy that his kid had collected at church, but had been forbidden to eat by his health-obsessed parents.’.
Anxiety is one of the most common symptoms and can lead the person to believe that if a task is not completed, something bad will happen. to dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of (a person) beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally:Suspicion obsessed him.
‘The group actually advises Americans to "light up, giving a filter-tipped finger, as it were, to a health-obsessed government."’ Obsessivecompulsive disorder (often shortened to OCD) is a mental disorder that causes repeated and unwanted thoughts and/or feelings (obsessions) and actions (compulsions).
‘The centuries-old Hindu theory of happy life and preventative medicine was suppressed under British colonisation but, in the 50 years since India asserted its independence, has enjoyed a huge resurgence and - ironically - much interest from the health-obsessed West.’.
‘They wouldn't dare make such an assertion in today's puritanical, health-obsessed Ireland, where it would most likely provoke moral outrage and an advertising ban.’.
‘The event sponsors, who clearly buy in to today's health-obsessed ideology, forbid participants from doing drugs, drinking alcohol or smoking.’.