I've been studying an article on the connection between thinking and feeling recently, and what I tried to do was memorize the information and then put it together in pieces by saying it out loud. In doing this I wanted to demonstrate understanding. I actually got really into it by sort of pretending I was a professor and was trying to teach students what I was studying. It's difficult though, I mean, whatever I seem to study never sticks. It feels like I'm not building on what I'm reading, ugh. I don't understand it one bit.

My question really is what do you do with that information once you've learned it? When I study stuff about feelings and thinking my instinct is to say how do I apply this to my own situation, with my own illness. I don't somehow buy the notion that what we learn can't be applied to ourselves, but how do we apply it to ourselves in a sensible fashion? My biggest problem sometimes is wanting it all at once.