- Date posted
- 2y
The Internet & OCD
Has anybody else been exposed to harmful content online? Like, as a child, being online I came across a lot of gross, graphic content. In middle school, I remember my best friend showing me a really messed up video and we would ālaughā at it because it was so ācrazyā. I look back and realize we didnāt really fully grasp what we were watching. Iām so scared for gen alpha because when I was a kid online I was seeing a lot of messed up content on twitter and other apps and I didnāt have the tools to understand what was happening. Like not too long ago back in 2020 a man committed suicide on camera and I saw so many teenagers and children asking for the link to watch the video, and then people replying back to them āyou donāt actually want to watch this, donāt be stupidā & etc. Iāve also seen a lot of people from my generation (gen z) talk about how theyāve seen gore amongst other things simply being a child on the internet. My unhealthy relationship to the internet has really traumatized me and it feeds into my OCD daily. Iām super over protective of any kids who are online and I make sure to set parental locks & stuff. Iāve been online since I was like 7 and Iāve seen way too much. People would post crazy shit & be laughing at it and stuff and now that I look back I realize none of that shit was normal but I was being exposed to it so much that it kind of became just a trending āinternet spectacleā amongst teenagers specifically. I wish I was being protected as a child but a lot of kids have parents who donāt give af about them and I was one of them lmfaoo and I was just being exposed to hella harmful content and thought it was normal up until I reached like 16. A lot of people still act like itās normal. Like Iāve seen a popular ig baddie post on her story that she goes on gore websites to watch real autopsyās (and thatās not even the worst Iāve seen people talk about). Itās really scary and I think my generation (gen z) is the first to face this generational and cultural shift in the way that children are being raised because we were the first generation of children to have 24/7 access to the internet. Anybody else relate and does it also affect your OCD?