F15, have gone down so many rabbitholes of gore and graphic videos, how can I recover from a constant fear of death, having grief, and just not being able to get the things I’ve seen out of my head? Any advice helps
How to recover from watching excessive amounts of gore at a young age?
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Therapy I guess?
But also definitely stop watching that stuff
Yeah stop watching that garbage it’s the equivalent of porn rotting someone’s brain watching human beings die. I’d say seek appreciation of life in this case, wholesome content, maybe some church. The longer this break from seeing this stuff goes the better
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Just stop watching it and your brain will clear itself out, dont worry I did the same thing when I was younger
You distance yourself from it and give it time. A lot of people have that phase, myself included. And I’ll never forget this one video I saw of this teenage girl begging for her life before being shot in the head mid-sentence.
So, it’ll always be there, but you move on with life and take it for the phase it was. Just be nice to people because you never know what they’ve been through, or what they’ll eventually go through. Compassion… always.
Switch to porn
Binge watch kid cartoons and animated movies where everything is hopeful and rainbows everywhere
Your brain will process everything in time, as long as you don’t expose it to new harmful content.
Perhaps you can try meditation and journaling? Preferably with pen and paper 🙂
I enjoy gore so dunno how it makes you feel but I’d just stop if it was an issue
Tetris is really good for handling trauma, so maybe try that? I do hope you can find a method that works for you though, and you should definitely look into therapy if it’s an available option to you. Wishing you the best with this OP
Definitely therapy, and look into EMDR if any particular images/memories still really disturb you or give you nightmares. Hopefully it’s available to you.
Worst ones you watched
You’ve built a dependency on it because of the adrenaline/dopamine response. It’s not normal to see gore in real life, let alone often, so you’re activating physiological responses of fight or flight, and since you’re a human and know you yourself are not in danger it has become a perverted source of excitement. It’s normal if you didn’t stop to become addicted. These are powerful pathways in our brains you’re tapping into. Work on tapering off. If it’s every day, do it every other day, etc. “cold turkey” is the hardest. Also be kind to yourself, and good for you for recognizing you should change the pattern. Good luck!
Oh man, I remember rotten.com in middle school. There was a woman who was dead in her bath tub full of water for weeks. It was sick.
Agree with other posters, you need to stop watching it.
The memories will fade, they always do. I was exposed to a graphic image of a burnt child when I was around 7 years of age. My grandmother found a magazine article and between the immense wisdom of her and my mother, they decided to show me as a ‘lesson’ not to play with matches. It was ridiculous, I was a sensible kid and showed no signs of pyromania or even much interest in fires… it was their irrational fear. The sensible person who was consulted, the husband of my grandmother, suggested they don’t show me but maybe describe a watered-down version… the idiots didn’t listen.
For many years, as soon as it would get dark and I was alone, I was confronted with that image. Eventually it stopped and I was at peace. I can still see it now, as a 44yo man, if I think about it, although it no longer terrifies me (and naturally hasn’t in my adult life) but it was truly an ordeal for some years.
It will be a distant memory of nothing but a period in your life one day. Just take the first step and distance yourself from the content. I hope you fare well.
I relate so hard my siblings were showing me gore everyday therapy hasn’t helped me at all
Could watching this type of thing be a compulsion of some kind? Do you feel like something bad will happen if you don’t watch?