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How to Stop Being Obsessed

Find something bigger to focus on.

Heather Havrilesky
Feb 10, 2021
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Split Personality (1954) by Gertrude Abercrombie

To drop your obsession with someone, you have to build a bigger and more interesting goal for yourself. It's not just about kicking your bad habit, it's about aiming higher - much, much higher. I wrote about it in this Ask Polly from 2015:

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