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Ask HN: What are some resources to help me deal with seeing gory content?

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  There must be 50 ways to delete your Twitter account, no?
  • 082349872349872 3y ago
    Didn't Paul Simon have a 1975 hit, "50 Ways to Leave Your Twitter"? Now delete the app, no cap Make a new plan, Stan Do you need to scroll, Nicole? Just get yourself free
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• h2odragon 3y ago
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  • Zetobal 3y ago
    I get where you're coming from – the world isn’t always rainbows and butterflies, and yeah, we do need to be prepared for that. But here's the thing: there's a world of difference between being realistic and outright traumatizing, especially when it comes to kids. Watching snuff videos as a kid isn't just 'dealing with reality' – it's a one-way ticket to Trauma Town, with potential lifelong psychological consequences. Sure, our brains are spongy when we're young, but they're soaking up everything – good and bad. Exposing a kid to that level of violence isn't about teaching them life lessons; it's more likely to warp their view of the world and desensitize them to violence. We don't live in a utopia, and we shouldn’t pretend to. Kids will inevitably face hard truths and tough times. But let’s equip them with resilience, empathy, and understanding, not shock and awe. There's a middle ground between bubble-wrapping our kids and throwing them into the deep end of the worst humanity has to offer.
  • mattsan 3y ago
    I actually did. I'm surprised this has hit me as hard as it did. No thanks for your comment.
  • brodouevencode 3y ago
    Infantilism of the west.
• RGamma 3y ago
  Sorry your bubble was popped; it always sucks, especially when you are not prepared. In the "gore community" there always were joking references to r/eyebleach for that... As for actual resources? Mhh, not sure medical resources would even be suited for this. Maybe you can view this as an opportunity to update your world view and take it as motivation to behave as to prevent society from sliding into dysfunctional equilibria that eventually make people do this. For instance knowing that stress or poverty makes people violent or criminal and violence begets violence, you can make good arguments for prosocial policy decisions that may influence your voting behavior (at least this influences mine). Also there's a tiny amount of real monsters where nothing can be done, I guess. And note that there is waaay worse out there, just describing it might get me banned here. But is seems to be who some of us are sometimes. For that there is contextualising literature on criminology, but I have no specific recommendations on the quick. Oh, and it might be a good idea to look for other Twitter frontends, that don't require you to use the official site. Maybe something RSS like if you want a feed of people you follow? A browser plugin? Dunno what's possible here, never used mainstream social media since the algorithmic feed era.
  • mattsan 3y ago
    Thank you for the insightful comment. My bubble was popped when I was younger but for some reason this just hit more.
• pestatije 3y ago
  Give it some time...in the meantime, you have to realise the context in which you are living...compare your situation with other people, in other places, in other times...you have the privilege to have spent all your previous years isolated from seeing, let alone experiencing such horrors...suffering has been part of life since there has been life...i know this doesnt help you but i felt you were missing this part of the thought process by the way, next time it happens, when you see it coming dont dwell in it, dont stare at the spectacle, just shut it down...same principle as seeing puke or shit...if you dwell staring at it youll get sick, just dont look at it
• rsynnott 3y ago
  I mean, a big part of it is avoiding looking at it. Like, people whose job requires them to look at this sort of thing (or who have to look at it _in person_) tend to need mental health support. There’s no need to subject yourself to it; it is normal to find it disturbing. Haven’t been on Twitter since shortly after the ascension of Naughty Old Mr Car, and didn’t use the official client before that, but do the videos auto-play? Can you turn that off?
• night-rider 3y ago
  I'm desensitized to gore, since I remember the cool thing to do was; when me and my cadre of school friends went to rotten.com and looked at large amounts of gore, for the lolz. Then countless movies & games with gore came out over the coming decades and it just doesn't affect me like those first initial exposures. I've learned that screens are not reality.
• philomath_mn 3y ago
  I agree with comments saying that OP is being a little overly sensitive -- but I have noticed a large amount of untagged, extremely graphic content on twitter these days. This has been especially noticeable since the October 7th attack and now the retaliation by Israel. It can be really shocking to see the mangled corpse of a small child mixed in between the shit-posts and memes.