It's good that you can avoid it most of the time, then! Yeah, I guess it's the kind of thing that'd mostly come up in documentaries? Though maybe sometimes photos too... at least it isn't THAT common.
In my case, it's less that the particular thing leaves me "freaked out" and more that it makes me extremely upset, nd it's kind of hard to describe it, but I guess the best way to put it would be "bad things happening to old people". Which isn't actually all that unusual to be bothered by, but it's more the degree - reading about it makes me EXTREMELY upset, if I come across something related to that I keep thinking about it for hours/days, it'll even keep me up at night, a couple times it triggered a panic attack, ugh. And it doesn't matter if it's violence, or sickness, or neglect, or whatever - it produces the same reaction.
So sometimes political/social justice-y posts get this reaction from me, and it's not like people will tag for that kind of thing because how the heck do you tag for that, and of course I won't know what the post is about until I read it. But more than blogs/tumblr, real news sources are a problem - I have to take care when reading the newspaper because sometimes this stuff comes up where I'm not expecting it (skimming headlines doesn't always help as summary because they're so short/general). Most recent time I ran into this problem was when I was looking up information about the flooding in Serbia and I had to stop because the photos of and descriptions of elderly people who had lost their homes or even died in the flooding was just way too much for me to handle, I couldn't sleep that night.
Ugh, sorry this got so tl;dr, I usually don't talk about this so it felt good to let it out.
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In my case, it's less that the particular thing leaves me "freaked out" and more that it makes me extremely upset, nd it's kind of hard to describe it, but I guess the best way to put it would be "bad things happening to old people". Which isn't actually all that unusual to be bothered by, but it's more the degree - reading about it makes me EXTREMELY upset, if I come across something related to that I keep thinking about it for hours/days, it'll even keep me up at night, a couple times it triggered a panic attack, ugh. And it doesn't matter if it's violence, or sickness, or neglect, or whatever - it produces the same reaction.
So sometimes political/social justice-y posts get this reaction from me, and it's not like people will tag for that kind of thing because how the heck do you tag for that, and of course I won't know what the post is about until I read it. But more than blogs/tumblr, real news sources are a problem - I have to take care when reading the newspaper because sometimes this stuff comes up where I'm not expecting it (skimming headlines doesn't always help as summary because they're so short/general). Most recent time I ran into this problem was when I was looking up information about the flooding in Serbia and I had to stop because the photos of and descriptions of elderly people who had lost their homes or even died in the flooding was just way too much for me to handle, I couldn't sleep that night.
Ugh, sorry this got so tl;dr, I usually don't talk about this so it felt good to let it out.