You Think Too Much, That's Your Problem!
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Since my teens, I have been told that if I didn’t think so much, I would be fine. But I wasn’t fine. It’s been a long journey from reading psychology textbooks in the local library, through mental health services, activism, education and Mad Studies to where I am now.
In this paper, I look back on a life of “thinking too much” and see that trying to make sense of myself and of the world I live in was not the problem. It was and still is the means through which I keep continue to live. In short “thinking too much” has been and continues to be my main “coping mechanism” or as hooks puts it “a location for healing”.
I finish with a list of what I consider to be conditions necessary for fruitful thinking too much.
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