Is it normal to be this sensitive to media images? - Page 2

[srain]

Imogen, I don't want to censor you, but I feel that on a thread of this nature it would be polite to avoid description of specific graphic images.

[Dimples_2005]

My boy was born during the aftermath of Katrina. I've always been the type to kind of veg out in front of the tube when I'm trying to take my mind off something, and I'm a news junkie. In the early days of my boy's life, I had a horrible time with BF, sleep deprivation, etc. I flipped on CNN one time during a nursing session before bed, and I saw some extremely graphic images of death in New Orleans. I don't think they were appropriate for television at all, but there they were. I was haunted by the images, couldn't sleep at all, having doubts about why on earth I brought a child into this horrible world, sad for all the mothers in NO, etc.

My husband actually forbid me from watching TV after that.

I believe those images kicked off my PPD. I'm sure if it wasn't that, it could have been something else, but I still have nightmares about what I saw on TV that night. FWIW, I live in a hurricane zone, so I'm constantly haunted by what happened in NO, could it happen where I live?

[Imogen]

Originally Posted by srain

Imogen, I don't want to censor you, but I feel that on a thread of this nature it would be polite to avoid description of specific graphic images.

srain, although I understand where you are coming from, I don't find my original post any more or less graphic than some of the posts that I have encountered on the MDC forum detailing experiences of child neglect/abuse, spanking and if I remember correctly, one detailing the actions of child that had killed animals.

[srain]

Originally Posted by Imogen

srain, although I understand where you are coming from, I don't find my original post any more or less graphic than some of the posts that I have encountered on the MDC forum detailing experiences of child neglect/abuse, spanking and if I remember correctly, one detailing the actions of child that had killed animals.

No doubt, but this thread is specifically about/ for people who are very sensitive to these issues and perhaps avoid opening such threads (as do I). So as I said, I think it would be polite to censor yourself on this specific thread.

[sunbaby]

i actually think that the fact that so many folks are NOT more disturbed by what they see in the media is cause for alarm. it seems healthy to me to be sensetive to suffering, fictional or not.
pesrsonally, i have given up tv or even going to movies, because i find the images disturbing, and what passes for funny, often appalling. and i think its something wrong with a society and culture that accepts this garbage, not with me for disliking it.

[Imogen]

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[kirei]

Fine, Imogen, add me to the list of people asking you to edit your post. This has nothing to do with your right to post. It is simply out of respect for the original poster -- she made this post to talk about the fact that she can't handle hearing/seeing things of a graphic nature, and your reply WAS very graphic. No one is saying you can't talk about it.... we're just asking you not to post it in this specific thread. Please have some respect/compassion, and edit your post.

[Imogen]

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[Imogen]

Originally Posted by kirei

Fine, Imogen, add me to the list of people asking you to edit your post. This has nothing to do with your right to post. It is simply out of respect for the original poster -- she made this post to talk about the fact that she can't handle hearing/seeing things of a graphic nature, and your reply WAS very graphic. No one is saying you can't talk about it.... we're just asking you not to post it in this specific thread. Please have some respect/compassion, and edit your post.

I spent some time thinking about this thread last night and I stand by my original statement that my original post was not written to intentionally cause any distress. It was a sharing of an experience that had also caused me distress.

Kirei, no offence intended, but I find the tone of your post somewhat offensive. Whether intentional or not, you're talking down to me. I do not need to be asked to adopt compassion or respect. I'm 33 years old, not a child or teenager that needs guidance.

I'll leave it at this. I have no reason to return to this particular thread or get into a battle of egos.

Blessings

[babybugmama]

I think your reaction is actually normal. I think the fact that so many of us can and do watch is abnormal. I think we (general we) have habituated and desensitized to violence in such an enormous way that we are numb. I think having children at least for awhile, strips those blinders off. When dd was very little we moved the tv out of the living room. We later moved it back in, but in a hutch (need the room it was in for baby2). Of course we've ended up watching more. Still without dd, but when she goes to bed. We were both amazed at how violent, and fast, and just over stimulating it was. We had reverted back to "normal."

If something upsets you that much listen to your response.