04/19/2025

Understanding a Hyper-fixation

Here is how to address it

If you are really into the TV show you are bingeing, you might spend an entire weekend afternoon tearing through episodes—taking stretch breaks or refreshing Reddit or ordering takeout while you are at it.

Now, imagine taking it up a level. If you are hyper-fixated on that show, you will be so engrossed you will forget to eat or get up to go to the bathroom; you will not check for new messages on your phone or collect the groceries the delivery guy dropped off, emerging only after you have finished the entire series.

"Hyper-fixating is focusing on something with intensity," said Saba Harouni-Lurie, a licensed marriage and family therapist. "It could be an interest, it could be a person, it could be a hobby, it could be a place—and when you’re very involved with it, often that means other things are going to be disregarded or won't be as interesting."

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