Obsession is different from love, though it contains love's shape. It's the inability to locate attention elsewhere — the return, compulsive and involuntary, to one thought, one person, one scenario. It doesn't respond to reason. Knowing it's disproportionate doesn't diminish it.

Anonymous thoughts about obsession posted here are from people who have been inside this — the honest account of what it's like when someone becomes the organizing principle of your mind, regardless of whether they deserve to be there.