What is Depression

Clinical depression is a state of sadness or melancholia that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living....

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i picked up a book in the book store under the psychology section.

something about understanding madness.... about psychosis and scitzophrenia ect. how the brain works and what can happen ect.

i thought... a littel reading for understanding maybe good, looked an intreasting book overall.... madness isnt just scizophrenia in my eyes (i think illnesses can cross over) anyway, i flicked through..... and it hit was i read to understand and improve my knowledge??? or was i intreasted it because it had weird stuff in and i know full well im very sensitive to this stuff, i get paraniod, i can be very unstable, im often vulnrable ect. i mean i got my own thing going on in my head needing to win and my own paranias ect. i dont need more but this book grabbed me and started making think some weird things just reading it for a min or two. i had to put it down i couldnt buy it in fear off making my mind wonder and get worse.

so was i really going over to the psychology books for mere understanding or maybe i was trying to look for something to trigger me? i dont know?
anyone else do that?

i mean at the end of day i knew i shouldnt and put it back, but geee im sure tempted to go back incase there is something supicios the book would warn me about.
Posted on 11/04/09, 01:11 pm
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Reply #1 - 11/04/09  2:05pm
" Maybe you are over-analysing the thirst for understanding and knowledge. There will be things contained in a psychology book that will be triggering but that doesnt mean that you specifically set out to trigger yourself. "
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Reply #2 - 11/04/09  2:19pm
" I go there to try and get help for myself.. nothing more, nothing less. I think the main goal for all of us is to just feel better. Not much really triggers me anymore.. Or at least I try to not let it.. "
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Reply #3 - 11/05/09  4:33am
" I did the same thing, I saw a psych book and thought this might help me to understand and then again it might fuck me up some more. But I thought I can't get anymore messed up than I already am, can I? But it actually did help me to understand a little bit more of what was going on in my head. I've even went as far start a psychology course at my local college, but realised that I bit off more than I could chew and it didnt work out because of my mental state of mind wasn't quite ready for that yet. So I stick to a little reading now and then, and I like this site it realy helps. Its reassuring to know that there are other people experiencing what I am, we are not alone. "

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