Poll Do You Obsessively Research What You Don't Understand?

[Kintsugi]

Ah, another chatroom induced poll.

Do you have a burning need to understand what you don't get? Do you put lots of research into understanding the mundane, the bizarre, and the not-necessarily-need-to-know things that come up in your life?

 

[TXbandit]

Every day!!! Thanks for starting the poll. Excited to see the results and thoughts on this. I voted research all manner of things I don't understand.

Thanks Simon!! :)

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

I think people with PTSD might have a knack for analyzing things. Sometimes, over-analyzing things. I've been told so many times that I excel at analyzing my own brain, I could be a shrink.

I love to research things I don't understand. Google is my best friend. Well, not really, but when it comes to research, it is.
But I don't overdo it either. I've had my dose of trying to comprehend stuff back when I was studying :D

 

[WhisperingUnicorn]

Do you have a burning need to understand what you don't get? Do you put lots of research into understanding the mundane, the bizarre, and the not-necessarily-need-to-know things that come up in your life?

OMW, YES!!! *sheepish*

Obsessively is the WORD. *sigh* ;) ;)

~S2B

 

[WhisperingUnicorn]

PS - I joined this site in part BECAUSE I obsessively research online .. LOL

 

[Kintsugi]

@ptsdspouse2b Interesting point raised above. Surely people who research a lot are more likely to find this resource than those who do not!

 

[illusionist]

Interesting!....I've done this since I was a kid. I used to spend time in the library after school, looking into stuff that I'd been taught, more deeply. My brain is full of useless information....used to entertain flatmates with some of the stuff I've accumulated over the years....yet I couldn't remember a conversation we'd had the day before.

 

[Hope to Encourage]

I research everything obsessively. I hate not knowing things especially if it has to do with people and their emotions. I love to understand and encourage people :)

 

[shimmerz]

Absolutely. It has helped me immensely. I think it may be a strategy for those of us who are left brain dominant to compensate for the trauma endured. Could be OCD like too.

 

[WhisperingUnicorn]

I think it for those of us who are left brain dominant to compensate for the trauma endured. Could be OCD like too.

#TRUESTORY !! ;)

 

[Suzetig]

I research everything and yes, that's how I found this site too.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Nope.

I stopped when I realized that much of what I was researching wasn't giving me any real answers. It was just a method to increase my madness. Now I work on simply trying to accept things as they are rather than figure everything out. I have a very obsessive mind so this ends up working out for me.