I've heard of people who ran mad because of too much reading. I've seen some roaming mad men always with books, reading and writing. There is one they told me can even solve chemistry perfectly!!

I was told that one of my classmate (primary school) nearly ran mad while reading hard to pass remedial studies.

From all i've written, i want to know, can reading too much (jakometerism) cause madness?

moderation and intelligence is the key

sparkleboy:
moderation and intelligence is the key

thats true. But not in naija institutions o! You have to tripple or even fourple the hours you read

yes it can lead to mental complications. stressing the brain too much can easily warn out some cells or brain chemical problem

A man's brain contains over 14billion cells in it- If you aquirre the knowledge of this world from its very beggining to it present, there will still be room for more. That's the power in that God's gift to humanity called BRAIN. No man has ever used 1/4 of it. Reading never makes a man insane, but abuse of the brain can make a man insane- if a man keeps reading when the brain is signalling for a rest is an abuse of the brain. (Taking smokes, hard drugs and d likes too are forms of abusing the brain which can also lead to insanity)
You should know your learning/reading skill, this helps to identify when to rest. But you gotta be honest to yourself, so won't give room for laziness becos under-usage of the brain as well is an abuse of the brain which leads to ignorance, ignorance is highest form of insanity cos an ignorant man is not much better than a madman.

I've heard of people who ran mad because of too much reading. I've seen some roaming mad men always with books, reading and writing. There is one they told me can even solve chemistry perfectly!!

I was told that one of my classmate (primary school) nearly ran mad while reading hard to pass remedial studies.

From all i've written, i want to know, can reading too much (jakometerism) cause madness?

Absolutely not true. I cleared my WAEC with 8A1s and 1B2 in Further Math.

I graduated from UBC electrical engineering program with almost a perfect GPA, an equivalent of 3.98/4.00. I achieved a 4.0/4.0 in my MASc also in electrical engineering.

I scored a 750 on the GMAT at one sitting and now heading to the Wharton School of Business on an almost full scholarship.

Look, I read more than anyone I know. I studied very hard in high school in Nigeria and won gold medal at the national science olympiad in Abuja.

I studied even harder in college while partying even harder and graduated at the top of my class, breaking the university record as the highest GPA holder ever.

Yet, I'm not mad. If I'm not mad, then reading certainly doesn't make someone mad. I've read almost all popular books in the world and studied so freaking hard as a college student, while banging lotta girls in the process!

I'm living the global academic, intellectual, and financial dream homie!

You can too if you work harder!

CanadianBigBoy:


Absolutely not true. I cleared my WAEC with 8A1s and 1B2 in Further Math.

I graduated from UBC electrical engineering program with almost a perfect GPA, an equivalent of 3.98/4.00. I achieved a 4.0/4.0 in my MASc also in electrical engineering.

I scored a 750 on the GMAT at one sitting and now heading to the Wharton School of Business on an almost full scholarship.

Look, I read more than anyone I know. I studied very hard in high school in Nigeria and won gold medal at the national science olympiad in Abuja.

I studied even harder in college while partying even harder and graduated at the top of my class, breaking the university record as the highest GPA holder ever.

Yet, I'm not mad. If I'm not mad, then reading certainly doesn't make someone mad. I've read almost all popular books in the world and studied so freaking hard as a college student, while banging lotta girls in the process!

I'm living the global academic, intellectual, and financial dream homie!

You can too if you work harder!

reading too much create more room for imaginations and thinking. you ask you brain questions and try to figure out the scene. and sometimes multitasking. remember everybody are not the same. there is a level in which every individual brain can handle stress and depressions. using the brain burns out serotonin. if you burns out serotonin more than the brains produce it can lead to madness. just lie the sperm in which one releases during organ takes many weeks to be replaced.

so as brain chemical. brains burns out many chemicals when over used. and it takes the brain roughly 6 months to 1 year to replaced each chemicals that it burns out.