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Old Oct 05, 2014, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by lt12345 View Post
I have searched the internet and these forums to see if I can find any connections to something I have noticed in myself for many years. I am not sure whether to put this here or in PTSD, so I figure I will just do both.

In order to understand that strangeness of the question, I need to give a little readers digest version of where I am currently at:
I AM seeing a therapist now as I have always had an extreme fear of many things including people to the point of my entire life being planned around how to keep people happy. There are to many crazy things to get into them but we have determined that I show almost all signs of PTSD from childhood. He asked me about sexual abuse and I have absolutely no memory of anything and look at my family and say there is no way (I can't imagine my mother not noticing changes in me if it were). I know why he asked and many things have made me wonder myself since I was a young adult. I DO know that there was emotional abuse and neglect and it is completely possible that everything I deal with is from there.
Here is where it seems strange and I can't find anything to show if this is a sign of something or just that I have a more disgusting mind then I feel like I have. It is hard to even put what happens down here even knowing that nobody has a clue who I am, it is just embarrassing that I am this way! Ok, here goes because I have to know if this is another sign I really need to look at and bring up or if it is just me.
................ I notice when I watch tv and especially some of the crime shows that when it comes to sexual attacks on both adults and children I don't have a middle ground response as I do when it comes to just attacks. I am not sure that makes sense. I am a multi-tasker and will often do other things when watching tv. I always have, but never really paid attention to it until now.... noticed that when a seen of a rape comes on I either react by really stopping to pay attention to it or having to turn it off because I can't watch it. Strangely and horrifically to me, I seem to have the strongest reaction to both needing to see it when they are depicting kids being attacked. I have always been a child 'rescueer' for a lack of a better way to put it. I have always had to work in a field or found outside ways to 'save the children'. I had always assumed it was because of the emotional abuse, but how do other people react to tv and movie scenes? Is this a sign of something I need to consider more or is there something even more disturbing in my mind then what is already swimming up there.

I can't believe I put this out there, but I don't know how else to see if there are any other people out there that share this reaction. I hope to **** that I am not the only one because it does feel like it.

Thanks guys and sorry for the long post.
Im sorry but we cant tell you if this is something or a sign of something in you or your life. what I can say is that human beings are a diverse species when it comes to how they react, things they like, things they dont, things that grab their attention, things that make them not want to watch a tv show or sink right into it.

as a normal part of life there are those who can watch for example horror shows and there are those that cant or this type of show doesnt interest them, another example some people like watching animal shows, others like sci fi some people have a mix of what they like and dont like to watch on tv. Some people even take their favorite tv shows and model/emulate them, some tv shows have a whole business made out of the fan crave for media (look at the harry potter craze or the star trek craze...

my point is as human beings we make up our own minds to what is attractive to us and what isnt and sometimes human beings bounce back and forth on their favorite themes of tv shows. it doesnt necessarily mean the person who watches shows with rape scenes are mentally unstable or have a mental problem.

that said if you really want to know whether this is your normal or whether its indicative of something else you will need to contact your treatment providers. there are tests that can get to the bottom of this for you like a psycho-sexual evaluation. this type of testing evaluates a persons mental stability, mental disorder and their sexual preferences, sexual problem areas.
Thanks for this!
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