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Do you experience 'morbid curiosity'?

Random question I know but just wondered if anyone was like me!
i don't regularly watch gruesome or morbid things but if something comes up on the news I will have a real desire to watch something eventhough I know it will be really disturbing.
Recently I watched the Jordanian pilot being burnt alive. I was disturbed for days and couldn't eat. I know many peoe did so I'm not alone. I watched a documentary about a police team and their efforts to catch britains paedophiles. I knew it showed censored images of child porn and while I knew the images would be disturbing I chose to watch. Now I feel so disturbed.
I had a sheltered upbringing so I think I have a desire to be exposed to the harsh realities of life. Just to be aware of them. Or maybe it's just a morbid curiosity. I know I want to see the reality of evil things so I can understand better. But sometimes it's just a desire to view them for the shock value.
Ive decided to stay away from disturbing things for a while. It's no good for
my mental health.

does anyone else suffer from
morbid curiosity? When you see something disturbing do you feel unwell? Do you ever desire to see stuff you know will be graphic?

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Reply 1

JAndrade1

Honestly, I kinda think that's human nature. We've become so desensitized to so many things, not to sound cliche, but mainly due to the media.

We have to go above and beyond to shock ourselves.

Like, I watch My Strange Addiction on TLC, because it's weird, sometimes gross but overall fascinating.

Obviously there are boundaries, and personally I wouldn't watch anyone burn to death...but I don't think there's anything wrong with you.

Morbid and weird things are popular now; American Horror Story, Penny Dreadful, GoT kinda etc.

Reply 2

TheTechN1304

Yes. I watched the video too but wasn't really fazed by it. Within a few hours i forgot about it. Whenever I hear about weird deaths I tend to search for them for whatever reason.

Reply 3

EllainKahlo

Me. I remember once being sent a viral video of a guy cornering another guy he was confronting, and kicking him in the head until he had a seizure. I started crying because I was so upset, I don't see how any humane person can watch that, record that and upload it like it's nothing. He could be dead.

Reply 4

natar

I've seen plenty of suicide videos, beheading videos, questionable sexual videos...and I've got to the stage I'm bored of it. I think my morbid curiosity has run out...
I once saw a beheading video that shocked me and stuck with me for a few days, purely because the men doing so we're terrible at their job...hacking away, with the victim alive for much longer than needed. They might as well have been using rusty spoons.

It's fair to say I look for the most 'shocking' things I can find.

The only thing I refuse to watch is anything related to extreme animal cruelty. Leave the animals out of it!

Reply 5

username1553267

When it's gore then no, I'm really grossed out by it and have to look away. I can't watch horror movies but reading about it sometimes doesn't seem so bad. I get what you mean about it being bad for your mental health, I feel like if I start to enjoy that stuff I'm more likely to do something similar but in reality. Like recently I started liking this character Jaime Moriarty who's a murderer and I barely know anything about her murders but just liking her makes me feel a bit guilty.

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Reply 6

A5ko

Seen an awful lot of gruesome videos, grew up trawling the pages of rotten.com too.

It really does allow you to appreciate the utter evil in the world. It also desensitise you to gore, which can ruin your horror flick moments.

One thing I learnt, there's a ridiculous amount of blood in the human body.

I tend not to watch stuff like that any more, I've had my 'fill'.

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Reply 7

Skαteboαrder

Few years ago a classmate showed me a video of a journalist being beheaded because he couldn't understand how I or anyone else for that matter could be Muslim. Suffice to say I've phobia of morbid stuff since then. I would even go as far as to say something is missing from my soul since I saw that video.

I also saw couple of leg breaks in football (Witsel breaking someone's leg and the Ramsey one) and now whenever I'm watching football and there's a tackle a shiver down my spine - on Saturday for example when Matic was on the receiving end of that tackle.

Reply 8

Swanbow

When it comes to real life inflicted violence captured on camera, no. I find it disturbing and distressing. Unless it is boxing :lol:

Although I do enjoy reading about serial killers and dictators.

Reply 9

Smash Bandicoot

Redpill

Conspiracy theory videos

Pilot burning

all pretty terrible for someone with paranoia

Reply 10

DiddyDec01

I have a morbid curiosity. Having grown up around 4chan's rekt/gore threads it is quite hard to shock.

Also having worked on farms you see some pretty horrific scenes, like lambs that been quite literally ripped apart and calves being born inside out.

Reply 11

jakeel1

Yes, I found myself feeling a bit Himmlerish yesterday after I sat thinking about how the human ear works, I then thought about dissecting a live frog to study how sound waves go into the organ. In my defence, my psychopathic thoughts were being challenged by my moral side at the same time, and also in my defence I was thinking about how to cure deafness.

Reply 12

PinkMobilePhone

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I'm really really squeamish. There are plenty of scenes in films and TV programmes that I have to close my eyes at. Beheading is probably the one I avoid the most.

I have morbid curiosity to READ about graphic stuff, but to actually see it, no I don't, I would rather avoid it.

(Ironically I write horror which has a lot of gore, but it doesn't bother me in written form particularly, as long as nobody loses their head.
So yeah, bit of a spoiler, my books contain plenty of death but you'll never, ever, have a head being ripped off in one of my books).

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Reply 13

Skαteboαrder

Original post by jakeel1

Isn't that what they all say? :biggrin:

It's hard to believe these scientists are torturing these helpless animals in labs all day for the progress of humanity. Maybe morbid curiosity took them to levels that are completely alien to us mere mortals! :tongue: