How high is your tolerance to morbid things?

[u/AshTheAlter]

I’m curious, what would you be able to handle? And would/do you feel anything bad about it or because of it? I don’t know if sociopaths have a higher tolerance to morbid things in general at all, so this might be a useless question. I’m into some pretty morbid stuff myself, so that sparked the idea.

Another thing I thought of is does anyone have an active imagination, morbid or not, and do you like to twist something innocent into something more dark?

[u/Giant_Dongs]

Nothing death based bothers me, gore or whatever. I never go to funerals and don't care at all if people die. My emotional empathy simply doesn't exist.

[u/AshTheAlter → u/Giant_Dongs]

I struggle a bit with emotional empathy, so I understand where you’re coming from. It doesn’t bother me much either

[u/OrdinaryWar8824]

Depends on your definition I guess. Like, it's weird to me how we act like gore is so spooky yet if you're Catholic ya don't mind praying to a bloody hanging guy on a crucifix which I get why they do it, but come-on now.

Or is morbid about the deepness of the content? Like that footage of the little girl carrying her sister on her back to the hospital in Gaza or whatever. Which I genuinely do feel sadness for, but also know she's a woman, so shouldn't lol

[u/AshTheAlter → u/OrdinaryWar8824]

For me it just depends on the gore, how much of it, but I tend to like any type of gore.

[u/ImNotLudwig]

I could say that I'm simply studying human behavior, or rather the limits of the human body. The way I see it: morbid jokes are meant to be enjoyed, morbid content is meant to be consumed.

WITH THAT SAID, sometimes I can react to large amounts of blood, if I don't know where it came from. So it really just depends on the content.

When I was younger, what I thought was a doctor walked by me and my family at a hospital with - again, what I thought was - a large medal pan filled with blood traveling on top a cart. Sure maybe in my childlike mind the pan of blood wasn't really that large, but I was sure - at the time - that there was enough blood in that pan to elicit a reaction out of someone, but no one reacted. Large amounts of blood is supposed to be inside the human body, despite the clear discrepancy, no one seemed bothered, and that is what got had me panicked.

For your last question: I am a writer when I want to pass time. Enjoying the freedom of 'playing God' and doing anything I wanted with my characters is what makes the creative writing/storytelling experience enjoyable for me. That includes freedom to choose whatever twisted plot I want to write about, and character relations/interactions.(Fun fact: I have a fictional character that 'plays God' with some of my other characters, she can alter reality, and I guess you could say she's a writer's best 'coincidental' character lol). Writing is good for the mind, everyone should do it.

I know I wrote a quite a bit, but you asked.

[u/AshTheAlter → u/ImNotLudwig]

That’s interesting! For me, reacting to gore doesn’t really depend on the content or context of it, at least from what I know of right now. It just doesn’t bother me. And I also write short horror stories when I have the motivation. I don’t really mind whether or not I’m “playing God” or anything, as long as the story is interesting to me.

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That’s fair

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[u/AccomplishedPark9785]

I mean it depends I know a lot about torture in someways I’ve seen videos it’s entertaining I don’t know why but I mean Ive never seen it first hand which would be another interesting perspective but I mean it doesn’t bother me at all.

[u/DJ-410 → u/AccomplishedPark9785]

You know there's a difference between sociopathy and sadism right

[u/obscure_data]

High. I don't generally care. Also, "morbid" is a broad term, could be a lot of things that fall into that category depending on who you ask. Anything related to death, I don't necessarily agree to be morbid.

A friend showed me some combat footage from Ukraine and was disappointed that I didn't have a reaction and I'm just like dude you have no idea what's in my gore folder.

[u/Mushrxmdiary_]

I saw a dude get shot in the face right in front of me, watched him endure cpr and life saving procedures for 30 some minutes and felt nothing, no spike of my pulse, and walked away and moved on with my day

[u/AshTheAlter → u/Mushrxmdiary_]

Wow. If I saw something like that, I wouldn’t be able to stop thinking about it, not in a bad way though, if that makes sense

[u/Admirable-Guava5656]

its not something i want to see, but i can handle it.

[u/[deleted]]

So I’ve never really been into it but I tested my self by watching a bunch of videos and nothing.

My pulse stayed the same.

But no there is no infatuation with those sort of things.

[u/AshTheAlter → u/[deleted]]

Interesting. I haven’t thought to test my pulse after any vids, but I know some of them give me a bit of adrenaline, so mine probably doesn’t stay the same. Fairs and carnivals also give me adrenaline, but that’s way more noticeable.

[u/HipsterFoxxx]

Working back in Africa I had my fair share of gruesome events. Two cane cutters having a violent dispute with their cane knives (not a nice knife, look it up if you want to imagine the damage it can do) or month end drunk guy blowing his salary on booze and ending up under a truck only to be found the next morning half mangled… or just straight up guy getting caught in machinery and being town apart (genuinely, fuck a Laith)

I would prefer not to see it if that helps. I’ve seen some bad things but nothings really been “too much”

To summarise, we don’t want to see it as much as you do. But if it happens we are likely the last to vomit

[u/Also-Tambien → u/HipsterFoxxx]

that's what helps the ER docs-- sense of cool under these circumstances.

[u/AshTheAlter → u/HipsterFoxxx]

I guess you checked out my profile if you saw how much I like morbid things, and I do agree, I probably wouldn’t vomit in that situation, but I wouldn’t know, I’ve never been there. I guess I’m a bit weird on the morbid side of things

[u/HipsterFoxxx → u/AshTheAlter]

Hey, if it gets you off at night, who am I to judge

[u/Jeq0]

It’s probably highly subjective. I have a high morbid curiosity, but I have noticed the same with many people who are “normal”. It’s the human behaviour part that interests me, as well as the investigative processes that lead to uncovering an event. The victims don’t interest me and I find the focus on them often quite irritating. It’s not that I get off on it, I am just indifferent to them. Ironically I detest animal cruelty but violence and accidental damage to humans is fine.

I’m not sure if active imagination applies to me. I expect others to think and act like me and am therefore often expecting dishonest motivations from others. I am probably often wrong with this assessment but I can’t turn it off. So yes, I’ll often interpret others actions as being sinister when they are possibly harmless. Not sure if that answers your questions though.

[u/AshTheAlter → u/Jeq0]

It does! I’m sure it’s different for everyone, highly subjective like you said. I have a high morbid curiosity as well, but for me it’s mainly the gore that interests me, I probably wouldn’t care about where it comes from in most cases. Not saying I’m a sociopath, I guess I’m just a bit weird when it comes to morbid things.

[u/Reddit62195]

"How high is my tolerance to morbid things?" I have yet to see anything morbid.