I haven’t read much for several months due to illness and chronic depression.
When I read it usually means I have an interest in the world around me and a zest for life, so I am more likely to read a lot and quite quickly, but when I don’t it usually means my depression has set in again and I am thinking dark suicidal thoughts again. It is easily monitored if you know me, you will notice a drop in my books read pile and won’t get to see me reading much during those times because I get into the mind-set of what is the point?
Although tragic I suppose it is a funny idiosyncrasy of mine. You can tell how depressed I am by how slow or fast I read and whether or not I read at all – just check my goodreads activity if you are curious about what is going on in my mind at the time! I will add you as a goodreads friend too, if you want. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8725823-tina
The past two weeks has been pretty good in comparison to the past several months.
During a mentally stable time I can read 3 to 7 books in a week and about 3 or 4 magazines, during a bout of depression maybe I will read approximately 30 – 70 pages a day, but during really dark times I struggle to read 50 pages a week if anything at all!
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