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Addicted to gore pics/vids but I find them horrible
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Well, as you may know, there are many "shock sites" out there that offer pictures & videos of horrible things like beheadings, gruesome car accidents, suicides etc. I stumbled upon one of these sites by accident (I never knew such awful sites existed), and, despite wanting to throw up and hating myself for watching it, couldn't stop. I just keep clicking and I find more and more horrible things. I've done this several times, and I don't think I'm the kind of person who can handle seeing these things. I've lost sleep, cried, thrown up, had nightmares & everything but I keep going back. I always feel terribly bad for the people in the videos/pictures, and I'm completely disgusted at the comments people leave on those things. I know these videos can be viewed as sobering and showing you what life and death is really like, but if I die a horrible death, I don't want people gawking at me or laughing about how fugly I was. PLEASE HELP ME I just want to know if anyone else has this problem.
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stone_love (26109)
2009-07-31 01:35:26
It's called a morbid fascination. I think it's natural. We're naturally afraid of things that are "too much" to deal with emotionally, and I think it's normal to want to sort of overcome that barrier. Maybe you're just unable to understand that aspect of humanity, and so you're compelled to indulge in this as a means of trying to deal with it. Don't be too worried about yourself, it sounds normal to me. :)
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Ollieo (19003)
2009-10-05 05:37:05
@: stone_love
Good answer. I know this is simple but it is true: no one is making you do this so just stop. You are upsetting yourself.
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Sebastian1364 (30002)
2009-10-18 20:57:51
I do the same thing sometimes, it human nature being curious about things your ignorant about. I understand feeling awful about seeing those things let alone looking for it, where do u think the saying "it's like driving by a car accident you don't wanna look but you have to look"- or some shot like that haha. But hey you have to keep telling yourself "this is just life" and the more you see it the more you can stand it. You can't think too literal about the person or persons your seeing don't think so much.

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I know I few ppl who show people that shit just for fun and for what they call funny. Im not saying that's normal but ppllook at that stuff more then you think. Just don't be so literal about what your viewing.
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