This is a good question, though. Seeing horrible things on the internet can affect you. Anywhere from getting wigged out to full out trauma is possible.
Personally, if I come across something like that, it’s a good cue to take a quick break from screens. Go for a walk. Eat if you’re hungry. Drink if you’re thirsty. Spend quality time with your pets or plants if you have any. Pay attention to how you’re feeling and do what might be necessary to make you feel good and healthy. In that state, it’s easier to bring yourself back to the here and now. Look around you and appreciate your life. Seeing how real and raw those things are can give a person perspective, but if you overexpose yourself or ruminate on them, it can fuck you up a little bit. Even if you’re “desensitized.”
If you’re lucky enough where things like that aren’t a regular part of your life (as it is for most of us here), use it as a lesson in not just taking care of yourself, but also of others and society as a whole. There are fucked up people in the world, yes. Sometimes the bad guys win and terrible or disturbing things happen, yes. It’s best to maintain pride in knowing you’re not trying to contribute to that problem, in whatever little way you can.
And if you can’t seem to shake it, get some therapy. Not just for that one thing, but, it may be likely you’re slipping into rumination or worldviews that make it difficult to handle depression. Therapy is great, for real. Shop around and find a therapist you like.
sleep
Correction: how do you sleep after seeing something on the Internet?
- Pet an animal friend, or a friend’s animal, or a friend. Probably ask the friend first, or maybe don’t.
- Don’t be afraid to hug your mom/kid/cousin/friend.
- If animals and friends elude you, find a stuffed animal/monster/alien/person that will let you cuddle if for no other reason than because it has no choice.
- Watch cartoons or sitcoms or romcoms, and deliver some good feels into your brain.
- Look for eyebleach (not literally bleaching your eyes!), and try to put the terrible thing behind you.
Good luck!
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗEngage in something else, something fun maybe. A good movie could fix a lot of things, if that doesn’t help time is the cure for everything.
Oh man I remember rotten.com
Nothing is shocking anymore
And its bro’, bangedup.com…(nsfw, nudes, but very tame vs 20 years ago…)
I still remember browsing WPD, pretty sure the part of me that gets shocked on the internet died a long time ago
I desensitized myself years ago by looking at the worst I could find. It was bad for my mental health so I stopped. Now I’m no longer desensitized and a lot of things affect me again.
I prefer it this way.
…populationpaste, efukt…
stileproject too
ogrish
I had blocked ogrish out of my mind
The community there was 4chan in it’s infancy
This is my go to type of therapy. It’s about re-centering your focus so that your mind stops looping back to the trauma./ Where it becomes problematic is then weaning yourself off the game to healthier pursuits.
definitely shouldn’t be an only solution, socializing and talking it over are also very helpful. i think the game just has a very specific level of escapism that neutralizes thought loops which improves the efficacy of other coping mechanisms.
highly interesting. I assume it is the abstract thinking process, combined with dissociation from yourself?
Then maybe, any puzzle computer game might provide similar effects.
I have never seen something awful, aside from.perhaps a Trump speech.
Bearing witness to human atrocity is a duty IMO. If thats what you mean?
Idk, just moving on with your day and giving it time usually works for me.
Sorry to report but this may make it worse
I used it last night, rotate your phone and it looks better
I dunno about that…now it’s stretched and sideways. Extra horror
You have to put your phone in landscape mode (see pic) Edit: https://ibb.co/L52P0DN App won’t let me upload photo
Looks like a fever dream to me
Yeah I kinda mistimed the screenshot lol
If genuinely disturbing, therapy can help.
Bob Ross videos are on youtube
I saw my first truly horrible Internet thing two decades ago, and it hasn’t gone away. Sorry.
I got exposed to CSAM on Twitter over a decade ago. I’m still haunted by it, and anyone who does that deserves the worst things.
Ignorance is a bliss.
I go with Fancy Fox Gaming’s chill game music compilations on YT.
Its calm music from various rpgs and farming sim kind of games. SNES era sounds, roughly.
See something else not awful on the internet to forget about that awful thing.
Drugs.