- Date posted
- 2y
do u ever worry abt not being disgusted enough?
witnessing the horrors of humanity and feeling bothered and afraid that I might not feel disgusted enough, or hatred against those who perpetrated those crimes; it feels like I just want to avoid coming across these revolting things, stay away from them as far as possible, as the saying goes "ignorance is bliss". Instead of feeling anger I think I only feel uneasiness and my conscience feels dirty, stained. Do I even feel disgust? I know my mood gets significantly ruined as I internalise the bad and start feeling like a monster, but I'm afraid i don't feel enough hate and disgust for those who commit those heinous crimes against innocent defenseless little beings. I don't feel "clear" about that, not "clear" disgust and hatred, not proper and not enough as I should. Why is that? There is hesitance and I don't know why, a blank space, and that terrifies me a lot. I know witnessing this triggering stuff causes me immense distress but i have these questions like "are you disgusted by these things?" and i don't know how to answer. I SHOULD and MUST be disgusted but for some reason the only reply in my mind is nothing, it's just blank, even though it causes me a lot of discomfort and make me feel almost suicid*al. The lack of a proper answer to this question destroys me. I don't have this certain answer that I want to have that is "Yes, you are disgusted. You feel disgust over this stuff. You hate those who do that stuff. You feel disgust for those who do that" instead all I get is "nothing". Foggy, unlear. No answer. It makes me afraid that my moral compass is broken and that I feel just apathetic. That if it weren't for the fact that I have pocd and so I immediately feel discomfort I wouldn't even know if it is right or wrong. Maybe I have these thoughts that I don't know if they are intrusive like "why is it bad though?" when I shouldn't have them in the first place, because i should feel the obvious and human reaction of disgust when you something that is not right; and it terrifies me that it is in such a large and dangerous scale on the moral compass. The only immediate reaction i have whenever i come across triggering stuff that triggers my pocd is to avoid those triggering topics at all cost, as they make me feel miserable and stained. But I don't know if I feel disgust. I feel apathy. But not really though. It makes me want to cry because I feel like I saw and discovered something i shouldn't and that shouldn't exist at all. Something that is abnormal. And that is maybe why it shocks me so much that I get thrown into a "seeminglessly" apathetic and blank state. I feel uncertain, unresolved and vague. I'm afraid that my moral positions are just vague, and that they are not innate and part of my own identity.