Skeptic Humor

Compulsive Thinking Disorder Checklist

by Rick Stevens, Ph.D.
University of Louisiana at Monroe

[Editor's Note: If you show three or more of the following symptoms, please turn on the nearest television, and watch. Just keep watching.....]

1. Do you think alone?

2. Do you think because you are uncomfortable in social situations?

3. Do you think to build up your self-confidence?

4. Is thinking affecting your relationships with friends?

5. Do you feel guilty or depressed after thinking?

6. Have you lost friends since you started thinking?

7. Does it bother you if someone says that maybe you think too much?

8. Do you think to escape from studies or home worries?

9. Do you think more than most of your friends?

10. Do you get along better with other people when you think?

11. Have you started hanging around with a crowd that thinks more than your old friends?

12. Do you think until you just couldn't think anymore?

13. Do you get into financial troubles over buying books?