Depressing Wikipedia articles.

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IThinkMaybe

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LadyWench

LadyWench

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IThinkMaybe said:
Does anyone else end up scouring through the saddest wikipedia entries?
Here are some of my faves:
Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Loneliness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unrequited love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Love (scientific views) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think I use it to reduce complex emotions into controllable facts. And at when i'm at my lowest read about human atrocities such as:
Second Congo War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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God, I do this all the time. I thought I was the only one, haha. So, seeing people in this particular thread is pretty shocking to me. But in a good way.

Back in April of 2007, a family friend died. She was like a grandmother to me (she was best friends with my real grandma, who died when I was 7). Her funeral was the first one I had been to since my grandma's. It was probably one of the most depressing things I had ever gone through in my life. Not only did I mourn the loss of a close friend, but I ended up becoming obsessed with death. Not in a "oooh, that's interesting" kind of way. I obsessed over my own mortality and the mortality of my loved ones.

I would read about death on Wikipedia all the time. I looked up how cremation is done, what happens to the body after death, etc. I think the decomposition one bothered me the most. But I felt as if I HAD to keep reading.

Anyway, this is kind of off-topic. Sorry about that. Just wanted to share my experience with looking up disturbing things on Wikipedia. Yep, I'm a wacko.
 
Mack_Berserk

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This quote from Loneliness...

"If the individual is convinced he or she is unlovable, this will increase the experience of suffering and the likelihood of avoiding social contact."

So true
 
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