How do you "UnSee" Something?

[Tigger]

I had a very unpleasant experience today which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.....

In the course of doing work on a project I had the opportunity to view probably the most grotesque and hideous photograph I have ever seen. The image was horrific on several levels. I can't get into what exactly it was for legal reasons, but now I can't get the image out of my head. I was barely able to get my lunch down at noontime and I'm not sure I will be able to eat much for dinner tonight. Every time I close my eyes the image is there.

Anyone have specific and useful techniques for "unseeing" things like this?

 

[MaggieD]

I had a very unpleasant experience today which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.....

In the course of doing work on a project I had the opportunity to view probably the most grotesque and hideous photograph I have ever seen. The image was horrific on several levels. I can't get into what exactly it was for legal reasons, but now I can't get the image out of my head. I was barely able to get my lunch down at noontime and I'm not sure I will be able to eat much for dinner tonight. Every time I close my eyes the image is there.

Anyone have specific and useful techniques for "unseeing" things like this?

Time.

Edit: And thank you for not sharing details.

 

[clownboy]

Give yourself time, you'll eventually see something more heinous that will drive this from your mind.

In the meanwhile find a cute kitten site and browse for a few days.

 

[CanadaJohn]

I'm somewhat concerned that for "legal" reasons you can't describe the image. If the image contains illegal content, the best thing to do is to inform the police - doing the right thing often clears the mind of any uncomfortable thoughts and safeguards you from any subsequent difficulty.

 

[Carjosse]

You found a picture from the Serbian Film didn't you?

 

[StillBallin75]

I had a very unpleasant experience today which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.....

In the course of doing work on a project I had the opportunity to view probably the most grotesque and hideous photograph I have ever seen. The image was horrific on several levels. I can't get into what exactly it was for legal reasons, but now I can't get the image out of my head. I was barely able to get my lunch down at noontime and I'm not sure I will be able to eat much for dinner tonight. Every time I close my eyes the image is there.

Anyone have specific and useful techniques for "unseeing" things like this?

You're already on the internet. Go view some puppy and kitten videos.

 

[clownboy]

I'm somewhat concerned that for "legal" reasons you can't describe the image. If the image contains illegal content, the best thing to do is to inform the police - doing the right thing often clears the mind of any uncomfortable thoughts and safeguards you from any subsequent difficulty.

He may have already done that and that's why he can't discuss the content. The police may be in investigation now.

At first I was thinking it had to be goatse, but it's not illegal, just disgusting.

 

[Lutherf]

I had a very unpleasant experience today which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.....

In the course of doing work on a project I had the opportunity to view probably the most grotesque and hideous photograph I have ever seen. The image was horrific on several levels. I can't get into what exactly it was for legal reasons, but now I can't get the image out of my head. I was barely able to get my lunch down at noontime and I'm not sure I will be able to eat much for dinner tonight. Every time I close my eyes the image is there.

Anyone have specific and useful techniques for "unseeing" things like this?

I recommend pornography....but not that freaky German stuff.:lol:

 

[Lutherf]

I'm somewhat concerned that for "legal" reasons you can't describe the image. If the image contains illegal content, the best thing to do is to inform the police - doing the right thing often clears the mind of any uncomfortable thoughts and safeguards you from any subsequent difficulty.

I don't know about Tigger's experience but several years ago I had to watch a bunch of crime scene stuff that included several photographs that I'd really prefer to have never seen. It was a training thing and, thankfully, the pics were worse than pretty much anything I happened to run into later on.

 

[Carjosse]

I recommend pornography....but not that freaky German stuff.:lol:

You have never seen the French or Serb then.

 

[MaggieD]

I don't know about Tigger's experience but several years ago I had to watch a bunch of crime scene stuff that included several photographs that I'd really prefer to have never seen. It was a training thing and, thankfully, the pics were worse than pretty much anything I happened to run into later on.

When I was about 18 years old, a boyfriend who had friends at the police department showed me crime scene photographs from a 55-year-old woman who'd hacked her mother to death with an ax. It was absolutely positive gruesome. But I honestly didn't find it horrific. (I still wonder how he got those....) I think we're pretty much de-sensitized to those kinds of photographs. Think of Hostel and some of those kinds of movies. Yikes!

If it were animal cruelty of some sort, I'd probably lose my mind. There are some links I don't open here because I worry about their content.

 

[Lutherf]

When I was about 18 years old, a boyfriend who had friends at the police department showed me crime scene photographs from a 55-year-old woman who'd hacked her mother to death with an ax. It was absolutely positive gruesome. But I honestly didn't find it horrific. (I still wonder how he got those....) I think we're pretty much de-sensitized to those kinds of photographs. Think of Hostel and some of those kinds of movies. Yikes!

If it were animal cruelty of some sort, I'd probably lose my mind. There are some links I don't open here because I worry about their content.

Pretty much all of the pics were pretty bad but the two that really stuck with me involved involved a suicide by M-16 and an "auto-erotic asphyxiation" that didn't go well. It's been more than 30 years now and they're still pretty vivid. I don't think it was really the actual image that was so disturbing as it was the understanding of how it all went down.

 

[Tigger]

I'm somewhat concerned that for "legal" reasons you can't describe the image. If the image contains illegal content, the best thing to do is to inform the police - doing the right thing often clears the mind of any uncomfortable thoughts and safeguards you from any subsequent difficulty.

The content is legal, though incredibly horrific. They deal with an industrial accident.

 

[specklebang]

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[ecofarm]

I had a very unpleasant experience today which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.....

In the course of doing work on a project I had the opportunity to view probably the most grotesque and hideous photograph I have ever seen. The image was horrific on several levels. I can't get into what exactly it was for legal reasons, but now I can't get the image out of my head. I was barely able to get my lunch down at noontime and I'm not sure I will be able to eat much for dinner tonight. Every time I close my eyes the image is there.

Anyone have specific and useful techniques for "unseeing" things like this?

The content is legal, though incredibly horrific. They deal with an industrial accident.

An independent woman?

 

[Fisher]

I've seen some pretty horrible stuff before. Best thing to do is not to look but with a glancing sweep to get the basics while focusing on something else or try munching on some beta blockers......

 

[Helix]

give it time, and dilute it with other input. doesn't have to be specifically positive stuff; any data will do. just keep writing new data to the hard drive, and keep the cpu busy. sorry that you had to look at something so horrifying.

 

[Davo The Mavo]

There was a point in my life where I had to see some gross stuff. To deal with it, I equated it to seeing a dead raccoon or squirrel on the road. I would be remiss if I did not also suggest joking during a moment of stress induced by a sight you'd had rather left unseen helps immensely. Some of the best "funny" lines I have ever heard were stated in some of the most disturbing episodes of my life.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Google a website called eye bleach and your woes will be addressed.

 

[Superfly]

Sorry. Once you've seen it, it's there and it's not going away. It won't be as prevelent later on, but it's still going to be there. I remember back when the first contractor was kidnapped from Iraq and killed on camera, I watched it. I don't know why I did - it was just that gnawing thing that said, "You've never seen anything like this. Watch it. It won't really show anything." It did show it, and I never got over that. 10 years later and I still think about it from time to time.

 

[Muhammed]

I had a very unpleasant experience today which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.....

In the course of doing work on a project I had the opportunity to view probably the most grotesque and hideous photograph I have ever seen. The image was horrific on several levels. I can't get into what exactly it was for legal reasons, but now I can't get the image out of my head. I was barely able to get my lunch down at noontime and I'm not sure I will be able to eat much for dinner tonight. Every time I close my eyes the image is there.

Anyone have specific and useful techniques for "unseeing" things like this?

You could try electroshock therapy?

But if it's that one with the Asian girl in the bathtub with a fountain of her diarrhea going into her own mouth, then it's probably permanent.

 

[lizzie]

I had a very unpleasant experience today which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.....

In the course of doing work on a project I had the opportunity to view probably the most grotesque and hideous photograph I have ever seen. The image was horrific on several levels. I can't get into what exactly it was for legal reasons, but now I can't get the image out of my head. I was barely able to get my lunch down at noontime and I'm not sure I will be able to eat much for dinner tonight. Every time I close my eyes the image is there.

Anyone have specific and useful techniques for "unseeing" things like this?

I don't have a technique for specifically "unseeing", but whenever anything deeply bothers me, I don't avoid it, and I don't try to put it out of my mind. I let it roll around until it doesn't shock me or hurt me anymore. Trying to get rid of something is the surest way to make it stay. :lol:

 

[SmokeAndMirrors]

I had a very unpleasant experience today which I'm hoping someone here can help me with.....

In the course of doing work on a project I had the opportunity to view probably the most grotesque and hideous photograph I have ever seen. The image was horrific on several levels. I can't get into what exactly it was for legal reasons, but now I can't get the image out of my head. I was barely able to get my lunch down at noontime and I'm not sure I will be able to eat much for dinner tonight. Every time I close my eyes the image is there.

Anyone have specific and useful techniques for "unseeing" things like this?

In the long haul, time is the only cure. The image may continue to retain its punch indefinitely, or it may lose it eventually, but it will eventually be far enough away from your mind that it won't bother you day-to-day.

However, in the short term, for the purposes of being able to eat food and enjoy a ray of sunshine, this is my personal Prescribe As Needed image blocker.

It's the only thing that makes me giggle every single time I watch it. Enjoy.

 

[Gathomas88]

The content is legal, though incredibly horrific. They deal with an industrial accident.

I saw some pretty disturbing stuff on rotten.com back in the day. Would you rate it as being much worse than that site's average content?

I recall a photo of a man that got his arm caught in a meat grinder and an insurgent with the back of his skull blown off that still squick me out thinking of them to this day.

There was a point in my life where I had to see some gross stuff. To deal with it, I equated it to seeing a dead raccoon or squirrel on the road.

It's all just meat when you get down to the bottom of things.

 

[Tigger]

I saw some pretty disturbing stuff on rotten.com back in the day. Would you rate it as being much worse than that site's average content?

I recall a photo of a man that got his arm caught in a meat grinder and an insurgent with the back of his skull blown off that still squick me out thinking of them to this day.

It's all just meat when you get down to the bottom of things.

I tried the "It's all just meat" mentality and it's not working as much as I'd like it to. I work in the electric utility industry and have had to see similar images before but nothing this utterly horrific.

I got dinner down alright last night and the image isn't as clear I my head this morning but its still there gnawing away at the back of my mind. It was there in my dreams last night too.