How do you deal with hyperfixations taking over your life?

Sometimes I’m afraid of doing new things because I can become so obsessed, I abandon necessary jobs and routines for like 2 weeks and then I need to build momentum back, it pisses me off a lot

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I love it, it’s the only time I get dopamine. It helps that I’m a house wife though.

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