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I need a new interest, something to get engrossed in, that involves facts. I need to get so obsessed that it overshadows my horrible anxieties. An absorbing special interest is probably the best anxiety cure for myself that I can think of. When I used to have obsessions, in the Titanic, for instance, I had fewer anxieties.

What things are you interested in? What do you find absorbing and why?

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  • The Titanic was absorbing  because it was an epic disaster involving a huge ocean liner,combining history, tragedy, and water.  I am scared of being on the sea, and I can't swim, so maybe the fact that the Titanic represented my deepest fears made it strangely beguiling. The sad immensity of the tragedy made me upset, but this feeling of sadness ironically made me all the more obsessed, and I could think of nothing else. I can't really explain the obsession in any other way.

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  • The Titanic was absorbing  because it was an epic disaster involving a huge ocean liner,combining history, tragedy, and water.  I am scared of being on the sea, and I can't swim, so maybe the fact that the Titanic represented my deepest fears made it strangely beguiling. The sad immensity of the tragedy made me upset, but this feeling of sadness ironically made me all the more obsessed, and I could think of nothing else. I can't really explain the obsession in any other way.

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