Celebrity Worship Syndrome - can we call it a disease, obsession?

😛 Someone special inspired me for this topic. It seems like fan worshipping has gotten out of control on IF. So much that do we need a doctor to visit this forum and give us a checkup? It is okay to admire a celebrity. But worship can be unhealthy. Sometimes even fatal or criminal. 😲 😆
Is celebrity worship syndrome a disease or obsession? Please share your thoughts.

you're welcome SA! 😆

BTW this is a very serious issue

Originally posted by: cougarTown

you're welcome SA! 😆

😳 🤗 hope I opened the topic with right amount of masala and Tamasha. 😲

I feel it is escapism

Originally posted by: cougarTown

I feel it is escapism

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lack of happiness, self respect or may be both

you cannot do much to make yourself happy so you obsess with some one successful to gain that happiness through that some one

in the process of doing it- you enter a vicious cycle where your obsession begins to grow

unfortunately a mental condition's worst symptom is that there are barely any- you don't even know when a mere likeness for a celeb has turned into a full time obsession

but the thing is that it is providing you happiness- a deepika padukone (example) winning an award, makes you smiling all day- you escape your problems. That is making you happy and you just don't look beyond that, you don't realize how sad you are in reality to be happy over some one who doesn't even know you exist.

and we all are greedy for happiness. In the process we rarely realize where the happiness is coming from- we just associate it with a celeb

To accept it can be a good start

Very well said. 😊 This forum is meant for fun. These people act like it is life or death. I don't think people will admit they have a problem. It has to come from within. I feel like DR Phil. Maybe you can start a talk show. 😆 Anyway I like Whitney and Madonna. But posting threats or insulting members. That is to extreme. 😲

What a topic. Indeed a dhamaka :P for me its not obsession but yes if I like someone I praise him or her but I don't force that others also like them.neither I involve in any type of bashing gaurav.
Yes,it should not exceed. Balance should be there.

Originally posted by: addictedlove

What a topic. Indeed a dhamaka :P for me its not obsession but yes if I like someone I praise him or her but I don't force that others also like them.neither I involve in any type of bashing gaurav.

😳 😊 you always are cool addictedlove. Either you like a celeb or you don't. It is extreme to make threats. People take this forum to seriously. 😃

the reason they make threats is coz we are taking away their source of happiness

Originally posted by: cougarTown

the reason they make threats is coz we are taking away their source of happiness

for a normal member- any person winning an award or being insulted- they would write 1, 2 comments and move on, enjoy their lives

but for CWS members- they may spend days being happy over a rankat getting married (example)

since the associated happiness with a celeb is high- the sadness/anger when some one says something negative is high too

which is why they go to the extremes of threating to kill some one- coz they feel endangered that the source providing them happiness is being attacked

if I am happy with my life- would I bother boiling my blood over an xyz star?

they have formed a full relation with that celeb- invested so much in him/her and for them to break this relation is hard..

I have even seen people call Aish granny and aunty. Do I say anything? 😲 Celebs won't care if fans bash them. That member is probably bitter about Deepika. Have you been attacked yet on this forum?