How densensitized are you?

 

 

 

 

 

I hate to be densensitized, but I am. People can get shot, and I think nothing of it.

 

 

 

Curse words can fill the screen, but it doesn't come to my mind on how bad it is.

 

 

 

Cartoons can teach wrong morals and it doesn't play a tune in my head.

 

 

 

 

 

I hate being densensitized. When people cry, I just look and stare.. not having any emotion or even sympathy.

 

 

 

As a person, I want to make things better, I want to make things right, I want to show emotional effection for the hurt, but i'm densensitized.

 

 

 

I believe 1 cause of this is video games. I have probably witnessed over 1 million deaths and think nothing of it. Games like CNC 3, where I blow up tanks, or Generals and watch my troops get poisoned. I think nothing of it, after all, its not real right?

 

 

 

Yet, I feel the virtual reality and the media, has densensitized me. How do you become un-densensitized?

 

 

 

And are you densensitized? How do you feel about it? Do you wish you would show more effection?

 

 

 

Discuss..

 

 

 

~Defender~

I really don't think video games have much to do with it, I think its more of, "this is just another everyday thing", I mean people get shot and such all the time, you can be sure that no matter the time there is a gun being shot somewhere on this planet.

 

 

 

Its all horrible, yes, but it happens all the time so everyone gets used to it.

 

 

 

Curse words are used all the time, so much so that people say them without even noticing anymore.

 

 

 

Cartoons that teach wrong morals? Well, again, its just another thing that happens all the time, either for the coolness factor, or for just plain stupidity that people love for some wierd reason.

 

 

 

I'm really not sure how one comes about being un-desensitized, though its not really worth it, else you'd probably be breaking down every few mins over another problem thats happened somewhere around the world.

 

 

 

and btw, you do feel sympathy, else you wouldn't have made this thread.

hmmmmm, this is a very deep thread. (takes off party hat and tells the girls to go home, then puts on grey sollem suite and a pair of sunglasses) ok, now im ready.

 

 

 

 

 

Almost all that you said is true, somebody gets in a car crash, you slow down to see the damage to the car, girl dies of cancer, you say'i didnt really like her' its society today. its hard to realize just how bad its gotten without. . . . . . well i cant think of a way to figure the REAL depth of the problem. you just have to keep going on.

In some ways, yes.

 

 

 

In other ways, no.

 

 

 

Yes because I have become jaded on reports of murders, rapes, car crashes, and other things that I hear about every day.

 

 

 

No because I haven't actually seen/experienced any of these things, and so therefore I simply don't have the ability to completely understand things like that.

 

 

 

As far as curse words are concerned, you could look at that several ways. They really don't mean that much to me. Unless you are really trying to make a point, they are used like spam. I honestly think people need to not be so shocked by them. The only reason they are curse words is because people make them curse words.

 

 

 

And then there's when people cry... I used to be that way. I used to be able to not cry. But now...ever since about a year ago, I can't do that. I watched a youtube video called "Kiwi!" a little while ago, and then cried for about two minutes straight after watching it. It's really a beautiful piece. My mom had on the doctor Phil show this morning and I couldn't help but tear up when a little girl started crying.

 

 

 

It's rather odd.

 

 

 

I can also, if I need to (and I don't like to do it), turn off all emotion. I can pretty much stand anything and not react to it all. I just get myself into a mood, and I can do it...I'm not sure how to describe this...I've seen pictures of things most kids my age can hardly imagine, and have been able to look at them purely from a scientific viewpoint, for lack of a better description.

 

 

 

But please, whatever you do, don't blame video games. They really aren't at fault. There is a _huge_ difference between a "death" in a video game and a death in real life.

 

 

 

As for your idea about becoming "un-desensitized", I'm not completely sure. The only real way for that to happen is for you to either A: experience said terrible event, or B: imagine said event happening to you, step by step, gruesome detail by gruesome detail...imagine the suffering, the sadness, the guilt, the pain. Imagine every little bit of it. Maybe you can grasp a glimpse of how terrible it is, and then maybe you can begin to appreciate it.

You usually feel that way until you experience the event in real life.

 

I mean I thought I was rock solid until I saw a man get run over by a car and die..

 

Usually a person thinks they are untochable until they get touched :P if that makes any sence at all.

You usually feel that way until you experience the event in real life.

 

I mean I thought I was rock solid until I saw a man get run over by a car and die..

 

Usually a person thinks they are untochable until they get touched :P if that makes any sence at all.

 

Exactly what I was going to say. You're desensitized (you spelled it wrong every time in your opening post) to fake violence. You see someone get killed in GTA and obviously you don't feel anything. But rest assured that you're not desensitized to real life violence. If you saw the same thing in real life of course you would react differently to seeing it in a movie. Think nothing of how you perceive things in the movies, because you know it's not real, so you shouldn't expect to feel really emotional about it.

Why don't you enter a relationship with someone? Get into it so you become emotionally attached and you might express your emotions easily and it can probably do what you seek.

Ever seen someone shot and/or die right in front of you?

 

 

 

Until you do, you can be as 'cold' as you like, Ice.

Oh, come on, it's just another one of those threads Defender2516 posts every now and then to sound profound or somehow tough.

 

 

 

And yeah, you can start saying what you do when you actually see someone getting shot in front of you. You can't say you're desensitised to actual violence when all the examples you give are media-based. I know I would have compunctions against putting a bullet in someone's head, even though I do it all the time in video games.

You usually feel that way until you experience the event in real life.

 

I mean I thought I was rock solid until I saw a man get run over by a car and die..

 

Usually a person thinks they are untochable until they get touched :P if that makes any sence at all.

 

Exactly what I was going to say. You're desensitized (you spelled it wrong every time in your opening post) to fake violence. You see someone get killed in GTA and obviously you don't feel anything. But rest assured that you're not desensitized to real life violence. If you saw the same thing in real life of course you would react differently to seeing it in a movie. Think nothing of how you perceive things in the movies, because you know it's not real, so you shouldn't expect to feel really emotional about it.

 

 

 

Couldn't agree more, thus why what I'm going to post is more based on showing emotion than reacting to a catastrophic event.

 

 

 

My parent divorced about 6 years ago now. Nothing new, it happens to many of us. Then came all of the baggage and BS that inevitably reared it's ugly head. Still nothing new, everyone in my situation goes through some. But my way of coping I'd wager isn't the most usual out there. I wrote music, still do. Generally always sad, sobby, angsty, mallicious, sadistic, twisted or horrific music. As a result, I'd say I'm at an emotional loss. I pour all of my emotion into my music and almost acknowlege subconciously if I ever feel some shred of emotion, pick up the guitar and let it out. So yea, I'd say I'm desensitised, to an extent. Or that's how it would appear to be. Music is just my release.

hmmmmm, this is a very deep thread. (takes off party hat and tells the girls to go home, then puts on grey sollem suite and a pair of sunglasses) ok, now im ready.

 

 

 

lol i think I'm gonna siggie that.

Ever seen someone shot and/or die right in front of you?

 

 

 

Until you do, you can be as 'cold' as you like, Ice.

I have.

 

 

 

I was rather densensitized at the time too, and that event effectively left me ah.. unwilling to sustain emotional attachments to anyone. I may have been cold before, but after it was a lot lot worse.

 

Curse words are used all the time, so much so that people say them without even noticing anymore.

 

*cough* :oops:

 

I do that sometimes......most the time......all the time...... :-#

 

 

 

I agree with the guy that was talking about music...learn the drums...helps let out frustration and has also desensitized my neighbours hearing :shock:

Ever seen someone shot and/or die right in front of you?

 

 

 

Until you do, you can be as 'cold' as you like, Ice.

I have.

 

 

 

I was rather densensitized at the time too, and that event effectively left me ah.. unwilling to sustain emotional attachments to anyone. I may have been cold before, but after it was a lot lot worse.

 

 

 

Well, I must thank you for being frank about that to reiterise the point. I'm sorry to hear that mate.

Ever seen someone shot and/or die right in front of you?

 

 

 

Until you do, you can be as 'cold' as you like, Ice.

I have.

 

 

 

I was rather densensitized at the time too, and that event effectively left me ah.. unwilling to sustain emotional attachments to anyone. I may have been cold before, but after it was a lot lot worse.

 

 

 

Well, I must thank you for being frank about that to reiterise the point. I'm sorry to hear that mate.

 

 

 

A friend of my parents was involved in the 9/11 attacks and when he was running down the street with the dust cloud chasing after him, he'd see people fall to the ground all around him, but he couldn't help anyone because helping anyone would ultimately lead to your death. After that he was so scarred he can't, for example, even watch movies where people die. It's quite sad, what he saw and experienced. :(

 

 

 

So Defender, I'd doubt you could live through that same experience and say the bull [cabbage] you are saying now.

Does not apply to me, same for some other ppl on this thread it seems.

 

 

 

I'm a logic person, and not very emotional. Yet I feel compassion very strongly. I feel in my heart compassion is the way to greatness.

 

If in the real world, taken appart things very far from me, or things that are fake (movies/games), I can have great feelings of compassion towards people in pain, I'd reach and help them. For unimportant things, however, such as someone whining for small things, I don't give a dam about them.