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

[WhisperingUnicorn]

Did some thinking on this. I believe that I do this for a couple of reasons.
- Keeps my mind occupied with something other than the same unpleasant thoughts over & over. (avoidance)
- A general and not wholly unwarranted suspicion of the truthfulness of information given by a particular source. ie: (Health concerns, medications and their positive/adverse effects ect, ect.)
- General interest. (I also just enjoy learning new things.)

Well put! :D :D

I line up with this, too!

~S2B

 

[Eleanor]

Story. Of. My. Life.

I get a question, I'm a bulldog - I worry it until it is good and dead.

 

[Kintsugi]

@falling_wave I really identify with you when you say you find research comforting. Research is like my adult pacifier. :eek:

 

[Chava]

yes, deeply ingrained researcher. Studying was something I could have boundaries around as a kid...like I felt like I had my own space and nobody would get in trouble for studying. I usually wasn't studying school stuff but other topics of interest, which were many. I was also very curious and still am. But in recent years, it felt more like a bit of a distraction and compulsion, like occupying my mind so I wouldn't have to feel empty. I realized it was just another way I kept a bubble around myself and disappeared into my mind, safely disconnected from others, distracting myself endlessly. So I honestly lost a lot of curiosity, feeling like it was meaningless.

But I think it's coming back in better balance. I'm also a little more okay with not having answers or even looking in some cases. But still curious. I'm trying to get back into more reading and writing, though not trying very hard.

 

[holdenmonty]

I tend to look stuff up if I don't know what it is or want to know more because it's something in myself or somebody I love. I have done more research on PTSD and anxiety and the meds that I take then anything I ever have in the past. So I fall into the category of I research a few things into a lot of depth. But I think I am somewhere inbetween though because with the nature of my job I'm a jack of all trades admin stuff but a master of none.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Old thread, yes I know but I was bored and reading old threads again and this one just spoke to me.

I research EVERYTHING. It amazes me what I will research...at its highest degree, and then confuse everyone with random knowledge that not one person there can follow. I am almost like Spencer on Criminal Minds like that (though not near as smart) but I just shout of random shit no one can follow.

I know I was born this way...naturally curious about everything. Ive always wanted to know how all stuff works. And i was super happy the encycloedia was my only books. I was happy to read them many times over.

Yes, i know, im boring! :wtf:

 

[Naoru]

Yes, i know, im boring! :wtf:

I'm willing to bet you're not boring at all. In fact, most of your conversations I've seen on this site are pretty darn interesting so I can only imagine how an IRL discussion would end up. :) Sure, it might make for a boring hobby to other people, but I could think of worse things. ;) Honestly, I have a difficult time relating to people who lack desire to research and discover new information ... or maybe I am just thinking about my ignorant husband right now. :bored:

I'm also a member of the "I research everything to death" group. It started as a child in order to escape home-life and dive into knowledge - the one thing no one could take from me. I cannot say it has done me much good otherwise, as now it serves more as an avoidance method and obsession.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

or maybe I am just thinking about my ignorant husband right now

:roflmao:

I cannot say it has done me much good otherwise,

Im self taught in IT. That hasnt done me too much good though...not like it should anyway.

 

[Pixielicious]

Ah, another chatroom induced poll.

Do you have a burning need to understand what you don't get? Do...

Yes!
I love to research and get in depth knowledge about subjects I don't understand. I love learning new things. :inlove:

 

[Ronin]

Im self taught in IT.

There's people that, in 2016, cannot handle the basics of a personal computer, and use typewriters for official reports.

Just remember things like that when you get self conscious: You damned stellar, Lost.

 

[eloc]

It was just a method to increase my madness.

I was advised to keep away from the internet by an internal medicine specialist and an endicrinologist said wouldn't you rather not know about cardiac risk - but TBH my research and tests has so far increased my workers compensation payment by 800% and I am hoping to manage it to 3500% what was on offer before I called bullshit and went on a research rampage and made me realise I am at bigger 10 year risk of diabetes then heart disease - something I can work on. I was a little crazed in the middle but I have come through it with benefits that were worth the crazed period - would love it if I had and informed GP who knew the stuff I researched but necessity is the mother of all invention/research

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I was taught to always trust the experts/authority figures and never question them for most of my life. When the experts started making things worse, I began to do my own research. Not obsessively so much as desperately, as in desperately trying to save and increase the quality of my own life.

I also didn't have much confidence in my own findings based on how I'd been talked down to most of my life and reminded of how little intelligence I had. But luckily, I was drawn to the exact people and things that have made all the difference in my world. My research led me back to self and I learned without having thorough knowledge of that, the rest of the research was sort of useless.