Weird/macabre obsessions

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Okay, what's the weirdest, grossest, most socially unacceptable obsession you've ever had?
Right now I'm obsessed with suicide! I've spent hours on the internet researching suicide methods, photos, learning how to tie a nose and writing stories about fictional characters who commit suicide! It all started from hearing someone in my class talk about how her best friend killed himself.

I have been there with the suicide thing. I would spend a lot of time at the alt.suicide.holiday group.

It's not as bad as my current one though - traumatic brain injury. I met a guy in class who has been in a car accident and suffered TBI. I am particularly fascinated with the accidents that cause it. I have been making an effort to talk to this guy so I can hear about his story.

I'm obsessed with bubonic plague. I've had a couple of ship wreck phases too (the Titanic, 10 years before it was very popular, and I was 10 years old!) I also love cemeteries.

I have never had a suicide obsession without accompanying suicidal thoughts (I'm assuming GreenGrrl doesn't have these). I have however had obsessions with poisonous/venomous animals (my favorite is the Brazilian wandering spider, and once I can create a custom rank that will be mine ), poisonous plants, etc. These obsessions were most vivid when I was in a veyr dark period in my life late last year, pretty much like: oh well, I can't do anything that would suggest I want to die (since I was at a locked ward and would immediately lose all my privileges), but no-one can punish me for being interested in things that will cause death.

Part of Wrll. Looking at photos on like rotten or videos of beheadings and I love surgery. But I also love serial killers.

I love reading about the plague too!

Know what else is a fascinating disease? Fatal Familial Insomnia. It's a prion disease, I stumbled across it when I was looking up info about Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, the human manifestation of mad cow.

i almost hate to say this, since i just found out that one of more weird media stereotypes about AS has to do with serial killers. but--i have been obsessed with serial killers. (i want to know what makes them tick.)

also: macrophages. happiness and joy every time i see one. macrophages. yeah.

You must have really great eyesight to be able to see macrophages!

Ok, I'll shut up and quit being a brat now.

thankgod for wiki. (oh the little arms!)

I don't have an obsession that qualifies as weird or macabre, but I regularly experience OCD-style intrusive thoughts that are quite disturbing. These manifest as temporary but persistent flashes of graphic, repulsive thoughts... excessive violence, bizarre sexual acts, and disgusting images. Sometimes they involve me and sometimes I am observing them. It's really terrible stuff, and it I often find it hard to escape. Anxiety makes it worse, and I'm anxious all the time. I need to be on medication, and in therapy.

My AS-related obsessions are quite benign. Plant taxonomy... How boring and unnoticeable is that?

hmm. sounds like flashbacks to me, but i don't know. i hope not.


i was going to post something about reptilian shapeshifters, the conspiracy. but that seems kind of silly now.

No, they're not flashbacks, and this is not PTSD.
These thoughts apparently come from nowhere, involving things that I've never seen before.
It's OCD, by definition:

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, OCD, is an anxiety disorder and is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Repetitive behaviors such as handwashing, counting, checking, or cleaning are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away. Performing these so-called "rituals," however, provides only temporary relief, and not performing them markedly increases anxiety.

The only thing is that I don't experience many compulsions, which has been noted as a distinct subgroup within the OCD population. I just have random disturbing, persistent, intrusive thoughts.

this guy is crazy :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopaCQB4 ... annel_page

I'm obsessed with criminals , mostly thieves tho . So interesting to see what they did and try to think of better ways to do what they did and not get caught.

[quote="Acacia"]I don't have an obsession that qualifies as weird or macabre, but I regularly experience OCD-style intrusive thoughts that are quite disturbing. These manifest as temporary but persistent flashes of graphic, repulsive thoughts... excessive violence, bizarre sexual acts, and disgusting images. Sometimes they involve me and sometimes I am observing them. It's really terrible stuff, and it I often find it hard to escape. Anxiety makes it worse, and I'm anxious all the time. I need to be on medication, and in therapy.

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I have somthing akin to this and it worries me

i'm glad to know that's not flashbacks anyway.


about the serial killers: i think they're kind of like real-life monsters. maybe that's the fascination. ( but once in a while, there's one who isn't really a monster--like Aileen Wuornos. mostly, i think her life was just completely horrifying and she reacted the only way she knew how.)

sociopaths have a completely different internal landscape from everyone else. it's hard to believe that landscape is really real. i guess it's like a train wreck. once you know it exists, it's hard to look away.

The weird, the wonderful, the monstrous and the macabre topic

Morbid anatomy/specimens of human birth defects
People living with profound physical differences
Serial killers, their victims and justice
Torturers/sadists, their victims and justice
The effects of physical hardship on the human body (not because of torture)

Must be a genetic propensity for this. Some ancestors were found to have similar proclivities, including artists, medical practicioners and carnival workers. Victorians had a fascination for the unusual.