Canadian Freak Show. Do You Avoid The News?

[Kaii]

I went to see my psychiatrist last week and he has been trying to get me to see that not ALL people are bad and out to get me.

On some level, I understand what he is saying. MOST people do not kidnap, rape, assault and murder. I understand the math behind it but there is a bigger part of me that feels like screaming out to him "People are freaking crazy, haven't you seen the news lately???"

The latest in my country is the nut job that killed his boyfriend, hacked him up, made a video of it and posted it on thw internet, mailed the pieces to the head of our political parties and then fled to Europe. The news has been everywhere, it is hard to avoid it. The headlines are on the Internet, newspaper, tv and Facebook. It just reinforces my fears that people are bad.

Good lord, I just don't understand people, I really don't. People scare me. Their intentions scare me. Not being able to pick out with certainty which ones are good and which ones are bad plays heavily on my mind.

So, I keep to myself, avoiding contact with others as much as possible.

It's hard when you have seen and experienced such violence to turn down your paranoia radar :(

 

[LittleHugger]

You are so much like me in this way...I could have written your post! I also live in Canada, and don't watch the news or listen to the radio, but still, I can't seem to avoid hearing about this. It makes me just crawl further into my hole...

 

[NarcSis]

In my earlier stages I avoided the news completely because I tended to trigger every time.

Now, I'm a little more in control and I can take the news knowing I can turn the channel of it gets to be too much. My problem now is that I tend to obsess - so yes, this one sucked me in.

I used to be very interested in serial murder and that whole realm, so it's no wonder, but I found I was becoming paranoid at night, sleeping with a knife, that kind of stuff. It took a few days before I realized what I was doing to myself. News ban was instituted until I could centre myself again.

I know how you feel. Just remember, the world has always been like this, we just hear about it more now.

 

[Spiderallis]

Just this afternoon my T and I were talking about how there are good people around, they just don't get as much notice for being polite or kind. There should be a channel that gives people the option to only hear the good news, like if an animal was born at the zoo or someone turned 103 years old.

I haven't watched the news in a long time. For a while I was seeing too many people I knew, both the victims and the criminals. Once it was a forensic clay model of a homeless woman I used to share my lunch with. I don't know if I'll ever be able to comfortably watch the news.

 

[Taven Carlsen]

I feel less embarassed to be an American now that someone else is crazy. Thank you, Canadian amateur long pig butcher.