Am I Desensitized?
By kprofgames
@kprofgames (3091)
United States
March 13, 2013 6:57am CST
Am up early today.....happy me, quiet time before the house implodes with noise!
And looking around for discussions and found a few that had a hard time answering.
First let me say I work with the elderly. A companion for them so they can stay in their own homes over going into a nursing home or assisted living facility. Second, have seen a lot of death in my family, cancer the main culprit.
So when hear, read or come across a person in my real world that has to deal with healthy issues or death I feel a bit like, okay, that's a part of life.
Is there a point where we become desensitized? Where it effects us yes, but we can ration our way through it? I have found this more as have gotten older and maybe it's because can handle things differently and/or better than in my younger years. Or maybe it's become such a real everyday acceptance that it doesn't have the same impact it would have before.
Do we get desensitized? Acceptance of a situation? or just a way for our brains to work though it?
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2 responses
@mrswhitfield (2044)
• Indonesia
14 Mar 13
Sometimes I feel like I am a sensitive person when it comes to humanity, I am easy to cry or tearing when I see something that for me is very very sad situation. But another time I could be like heartless, especially when it's about someone take advantage on a certain situation. I think it's just because the way for our brain to work through it that sometimes makes us get desensitized or heartless
@r0ck_r0ck (1952)
• India
13 Mar 13
We do get Desensitized. why? Because its human nature. After watching and experiencing too much of any good thing, we loose interest and it gets boring, just like that watching and experiencing anything that is bad and and comes to us as a shock gets habituated. I am not sure if it is a good or a bad thing, but i know it certainly works that way.
