Does anyone else experience short term fixations?

I’m the exact same way. And yes, that paragraph is exactly why. I like variation. But I always tend to circle back to older things after a while. Especially with music. I may be sick of a song for a bit but later down the road I enjoy it once more. Until I get sick of it again that is.

It’s a circle.

I do go through “phases” with food, it seems to be somewhat influenced by the weather/season, but also by my emotional state.

The same goes for my listening habits… I’ll favor a particular artist or genre, sometimes I go through an NPR phase, sometimes classical, sometimes I won’t listen to anything.

yes, and it affects all portions of my life. Lately I have been focused on the Rock Island Southern Railroad and Roman history. Food, not so much, because as a cook, I can make pretty much anything I want when I want it.

I do this frequently, whether it’s food, music, an author whose work I’ve “discovered”, a computer game, even Fluther! I don’t know if there’s an underlying cause, but I don’t go through destructive phases, so I don’t worry about it.

This happens to me all the time. At the moment my food fixation is popcorn! I originally bought a bag from the shop at work about 2 weeks ago because they were cheap. ince then I have been buying them most days! I can’t get enough. I’m not too worried because I know I’ll get bored and move onto something else.

I do this with other things too but not so much with music. Usually if I discover a band or singer that I like, I like them for life. I’m still fixated on them (I have had a life long fixation on Barbra Streisand for example) but it’s rarely a short term thing.

I have short fixations on events or people of history. I’ll learn as much as I can about something that interests me in a very short space of time before needing a break from that and finding enough interest. I never give up on something completely though.

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Sometimes I think I’m a pregnant woman. If I wake up craving for pizza, I just know within a week I will have had pizza, like it sticks subconsciously (I wish I was pregnant so I could just get the pizza in the middle of the night!). Most of my fixations are like @hearkat describes them, seasonal and or emotional. Sometimes I think there are two of me, a summer and winter version, because we’re nothing alike.

I get that way about songs. I’ll have to listen to it on repeat for a few weeks. The latest is “While You Wait For the Others” B-side by the indie band Grizzly Bear, which is the same song, but with lead vocals by the incomparable Michael McDonald. Ace!

I get fixations on one person after another.

I’m troubled with pizza at the moment too :-/...and I have Weight Watchers tonight…. it’s not going very well

I get fixated on projects in the same way. For example, I might be working on designing a website, working non-stop for a couple of weeks. Then, my attention will shift to some other project, like organizing the files on my computer, or reinstalling something, or writing a story, and I end up not finishing the first project.

This is actually a pretty big problem for me. I’d like to be able to finish the projects I’ve started.

I don’t refer to them as fixations, but as phases. Right now I’m in a “paint all my kids furniture phase”. I was just in a “get the garden ready for winter phase” for a few weeks in a row. Next will be “do everything you can before Christmas phase”...and that will last for a month.

I do the same with foods. I could eat homemade chili for breakfast, lunch and dinner for two weeks and think of nothing else. I don’t know why this is, though. My hunch is that it’s something primal.

Yes, I try to rotate them and stay away from the negative ones.