Cyclical

A recent Scientific American headline posited that anxiety is more likely to keep people unemployed than depression.  Struck me as an occupational hazard cycle.  No job = Anxiety = No job = Depressed = No job = Wash, rinse and repeat.

There is the personal vanity hazard cycle.  For example, cue the lady at Starbucks who each day she comes in to order she appears to have a smaller nose than the day before when she ordered; (same latte, but that foam is not hittin' the same nose, not hittin' the new one at all). It could just be the oversized sunglasses, but my discerning eye detects more Michael J than Oliver P.  The other term for this snip/snip...bandage...snip/snip some more is BDD (body dysmorphic disorder, of course).  However, as discerning an eye as this blogger may have, she can't diagnose someone on recurring Starbucks sightings alone.

Other vicious cycles to be wary of include spending and making money (wash, rinse, repeat, launder?); altering hair color (literally, wash, rinse and repeat) and lawsuits (sue, counter-sue, settle, sue again...unfortunately, washing, rinsing, sanitizing have no effect on this cycle at all).

Life sometimes can be cyclical.

Cyclical: –adjective
   revolving or recurring in cycles; characterized by recurrence in cycles