09: Scary movies? NOPE

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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🗓️ 17 September 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

I am highly sensitive to violence and horror. I learned early in life that I don't want anything to do with scary movies. Friends would sometimes tease me and try to convince me to watch, thinking it was not a big deal. But having disturbing scenes burned into my brain for life is a big deal!

In Episode 9 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, I talk about how certain movies or TV shows make me anxious, scared, and uncomfortable--so much that I can't sleep at night, including the one movie I will never, ever watch again.

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0:00.0	This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world
0:10.0	brighter, louder, and more intensely. Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly
0:16.1	sensitive traits. Hey there, welcome to the highly sensitive person podcast. I'm your host, Kelly, and this is
0:24.8	episode number nine. Normally I release episodes on Tuesday, but I decided to do an extra one this
0:31.1	week, so consider this a bonus episode. And the topic for today is horror movies or violent TV shows or movies and how I
0:41.4	really, really don't like them. When I was a young kid, my parents were pretty conservative
0:46.8	and they never let me watch rated R movies. So because of this, I kind of was obsessed with
0:52.4	wanting to see a rated R movie. Typical kid behavior,
0:56.1	right? I remember being in maybe middle school, and I went to a sleepover at one of my friend's
1:02.4	house. There was lots of girls there, and we were all going to watch the new horror movie,
1:08.2	Pet Cemetery. I was really excited to see my first rated R movie, and I was
1:14.4	absolutely terrified by it. I don't think I slept hardly at all that night. It made such a huge
1:20.9	impact on me and scared me so much that my mind just kept going and going and thinking about
1:27.2	terrible, awful, scary things.
1:30.1	So that was my first experience with a rated R scary movie. That stayed with me forever.
1:37.1	Since that time, I've watched probably less than 10 horror movies in my life because they don't
1:43.8	do anything for me. Some people will say
1:45.9	they love to watch scary movies because they kind of like the feeling of being scared. It's
1:50.9	sort of like a rush and they actually enjoy it. And I really, really don't get that because the
1:57.2	whole point of being scared is that it's awful, right? Like, it's a sort of physiological feeling
2:03.0	that's like a fight or flight response that's telling you something is bad and you need to
2:08.9	get away to safety. I really don't understand the concept of enjoying being scared.
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