1.   Anxiety leads to compulsive behavior, and jazz is a social music, a public music, a music of measuring options and deciding the best path to take.

2.   As Shenk sees it, data smog is bad for your health, promoting stress, memory overload, compulsive behavior and attention-deficit disorder.

3.   As with any compulsive behavior, the key to avoiding baseball is avoiding baseball.

4.   According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an obsessive-compulsive disorder is defined by repeated, unwanted thoughts or compulsive behaviors that seem impossible to stop or control.

5.   But careful family studies among those with the full-blown syndrome usually reveal blood relatives with more subtle signs like obsessive perfectionism, compulsive behaviors or minor tics.

6.   But, like many people struggling with addiction, compulsive behavior or a simple bad habit, he is at a loss to explain his inability to stop.

7.   Compulsive behaviors like hand-washing can be substantially reduced with the help of drugs that affect serotonin levels in the brain.

8.   Compulsive spending, along with other compulsive behaviors, is often an attempt to deal with anxiety, frustration and unhappiness.

9.   Dozens of areas have arisen on the major on-line services and the Internet to help those dealing with addictions or compulsive behaviors.

10.   Improvement, recordkeeping, calorie and scale-counting become compulsive behaviors.