Drawing board.

(Just a post dedicated to my own thoughts, general facts and other titbits. It makes writing up cleaner pieces easier!)

• Obsessive: an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone; haunted: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.
• Obsession is considered a mental instability? Visit this thread.
• I can understand OCD, because most people have a mild form of it, but the obsession linked in that disorder is simply about oneself - not another. Or can it be influenced by another? Can OCD stem from the influence of another person - a celebrity, perhaps?
• There are many debates over whether or not obsession is a psychological disorder. I remain on the fence about it, having found that both sides make good arguments.
• To be honest, the entire "obsession vs. love" idea was brought around by my own interest in "sasaeng fans." In Korea, they have these crazily obsessed fans that stalk their beloved celebrities 24/7. I occasionally saw updates on allkpop.com about how far "sasaeng fans" were going to meet/see/leave an impression on their favorite idols, and my curiosity grew. I didn't know what a "sasaeng fan" was, but it basically means an overly-obsessed fan. Because I myself am very interested in the same idols (for the most part) and do not spend my life stalking them, I started to wonder about their mental health/the things they thought/just how much they "loved" their idols.
• Love: an intense feeling of deep affection; a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone.
• To be honest, I find all definitions of "love" to be inadequate, but it's better than nothing.
• Because there are no boundaries to love, can we really understand at which point love becomes an obsession?
• That seems like more of a philosophical question...
• This is a socio-political topic, not a philosophy paper. I'd better try to find out more on the socio-political aspect of it all.
• Socio-political: the study of the relations between state and society... the discipline draws on comparative history to analyze socio-political trend; of or pertaining to a combination of social and political factors.