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Moonshoe
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Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health?
#22440643 - 10/27/15 03:11 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just watched the most recent episode of the walking dead and it was a super grim, dark, violent, sad episode where the worst happens to everyone, a hopeless episode and generally show.
Do you think watching shows like this that are violent, bleak, horrific etc has a negative effect on psychological and emotional health?
I am leaning towards yes and thinking from now on I will watch exclusively comedies. Life is dark enough without imagining even worse futures.
On the other hand the best shows are often the darkest and they can be enjoyable.
What do you think? Would we be happier if we only watched uplifting media?
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22440667 - 10/27/15 03:17 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm compelled to agree. I've been lurched from happiness to depression by the impact of certain media alone. Reading the short story Guts by Chuck Palahnuik when I was like 14 disturbed me so much I couldn't sleep for days and I was sick as fuck to my stomach anxious. Same thing happened after I watched this video "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" (? not sure if this is the title, there's a shroomerite who has a still from it in his avatar), shit caused some serious anxiety for me. Although in that case one of the reasons for my trauma was that I witnessed my brother having a seizure for the first time shortly after the video.
But I digress. I tend to avoid media that I know will be depressing, hopeless, unsettling, etc. unless it's worthy of whatever bad feelings it may cause. The two examples I listed earlier are not. Some might say that makes me a boring person, but it's worth it for me to do whatever I can to improve my mental health. Same reason I try to go to bed early and wake up early most nights
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22440671 - 10/27/15 03:19 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't really know. If it's damaged my mental health I haven't noticed. On one hand, though, shows like that could make you grateful for how nice your life is in comparison.
Watching only comedies or only uplifting shows would get pretty boring to me, personally. Idk if it's a bad thing, but suspense and horror are my thing when it comes to shows, there's only a few comedies that can actually make me laugh.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: hex_enduction]
#22440697 - 10/27/15 03:26 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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sitting down and binge watching 6 hours of walking dead every day for a week? yeah, you might have a nightmare or two
but watching it once a week, i really doubt its going to effect someones mental health
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22440708 - 10/27/15 03:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nope, I basically only watch comedy and I'm still miserable, comedy is an escape and nothing more, for me anyway, once the laughter is over its right back to shit
I think the grim, sad, misfortune, violence of life is the driving fuel of most comedy anyway, it's a yin and yang type of thing IMO, that type of shit fills people with a need to laugh and comedy gives them that outlet, they stuff the void inside of them with funny, so to speak
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22440801 - 10/27/15 03:54 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Stop watching those shows that make you all gloomy.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Sun King]
#22440820 - 10/27/15 04:01 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think this stuff most certainly changes us. Music, shows, games, and every source of art can change you.
It is their creativity and opinions being shown to you. Just like surrounding yourself with certain people and you become more like them.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22441054 - 10/27/15 05:05 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Garbage in, garbage out.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22441157 - 10/27/15 05:32 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Moonshoe said: from now on I will watch exclusively comedies. Life is dark enough without imagining even worse futures.
On the other hand the best shows are often the darkest and they can be enjoyable.
What do you think? Would we be happier if we only watched uplifting media?
Dude, this is so me. I only watch things that'll make me smile, usually comedies.
It makes me a much happier person.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: ThatKidWithTheFace]
#22441170 - 10/27/15 05:35 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: Do you think watching shows like this that are violent, bleak, horrific etc has a negative effect on psychological and emotional health?
Yes.
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On the other hand the best shows are often the darkest and they can be enjoyable.
Yes.
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What do you think? Would we be happier if we only watched uplifting media?
No. Life is not purely happy and uplifting. In fact sometimes it's hard and downright cruel. There must be balance. I think awareness of the dark is important but don't saturate yourself completely in it.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22441174 - 10/27/15 05:36 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The bad acting is probably worse for mental health...
Feels like I'm wasting my life away trying to sit through that garbage.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Hobozen]
#22441213 - 10/27/15 05:45 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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no, i think teenage dramas are far worse, they teach girls that everything is a game about micromanaging and putting people down lol
Edited by Konyap (10/27/15 05:46 PM)
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Adolin]
#22441245 - 10/27/15 05:53 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Gresh said: sitting down and binge watching 6 hours of walking dead every day for a week? yeah, you might have a nightmare or two
but watching it once a week, i really doubt its going to effect someones mental health
basically your saying at larger doses it has an effect but in smaller doses it doesnt? that doesnt make any sense, it obviously does just not as noticeable
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Konyap]
#22441254 - 10/27/15 05:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Konyap said: no, i think teenage dramas are far worse, they teach girls that everything is a game about micromanaging and putting people down lol
Which is what women need to know to be women.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: ThatKidWithTheFace]
#22441270 - 10/27/15 05:59 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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ThatKidWithTheFace said:
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Konyap said: no, i think teenage dramas are far worse, they teach girls that everything is a game about micromanaging and putting people down lol
Which is what women girls need to know to be women girls.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Hobozen]
#22441273 - 10/27/15 05:59 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Same thing
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22441339 - 10/27/15 06:19 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Personally I think it's bad for the mind, and choose to watch or do other things.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22441427 - 10/27/15 06:34 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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when Glenn died I almost cried, so maybe.
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Lucis]
#22441453 - 10/27/15 06:38 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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when i first read this i thought it said "Are shows like the grateful dead bad for mental health?"
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Re: Are shows like the walking dead bad for mental health? [Re: Cowb0yNeal00] 1
#22441478 - 10/27/15 06:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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From now on I am in a strict media diet - only engaging with positive, uplifting and optimistic media, and I'll try to spend my time reading good books, writing and watching comedy.
I want to spend my days laughing and I don't want to see people being murdered or eaten.
Better late then never .
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