Colour obsession..

Okay, so this is like my first informal writing on blogger and I would like to make it very casual and light. As the title implies, I am going to talk about a certain kind of obsessive disorder in this blog today.

You must have heard about narcissistic personality which is also an obsession of a sort but then its more frequent and considered very self centered,"my wish" kind of implications are connected with it. Besides this, i have seen people being obsessed with a particular kind of song, sometimes even books ( to mention, I am one of them), clothes and yes, finally colours. It is very normal and perfectly fine but obsession is one thing and obsessive disorder is another.

The discrepancy is very difficult to understand but it is there. When you are obsessed with a certain colour, you tend to buy things, apparels, dresses or in extreme cases, even day to day items in that particular color. I can somewhere comprehend this obsession and in fact I can digest an obsession of more than 1 color. But how do I sink in an obsession of all the colors, and an obsession too high?

I know a woman whose name I wouldn't mention, who has this obsession deeply rooted and clinged to her since a long time. She doesn't only love all the colors but want all of them altogether under her control. It's a disorder I am sure. And though I have read a bit of psychology, I couldn't find a disorder of this kind. Yes, there are obsessive disorder but as I observe her each day, her condition far above the mentioned disorder.

I have to, in order to make you understand the seriousness of the situation, tell her age. She is at present somewhere around 75 and she is not very well these days. Though she is healthy as compared to most young people internally but in terms of external organs, its a bit problematic. She doesn't feel like walking or getting out bed which is completely understandable on her part taking into notice her age. But what invokes in me a weird calling is that though she is 'not very well', she doesn't have any issues in changing her clothes 20-30 times a day. Yes, you heard it right, 20-30 each day!! I mean who does that?

According to what colors she comes across throughout her day, I don't know with what logic, she changes her clothes simultaneously. In fact if she is watching TV and an actress with some attractive dress or even any dress catches her eyes, she immediately gets up and inspite of having a swollen hand, changes right away into the same colors she just saw.

I don't know if anyone has ever seen or heard about this kind of disorder , but experiencing it in front of your eyes each day gives a strange feeling. Sometimes, her sudden movement to change clothes even scares me and my wits lose their significance as the situation is indeterminable.