is it bad that i feel this way about..... ( serious answers please)?!
Question: Is it bad that i feel this way about..... ( serious answers please)?
for the past maybe 2 and a half years.. i've sorta been interested in serial killers..
well i like to learn about them and watch programs about them in that sorta way..
okay that's not to weird.. i know i've been told this.
however.. it's the way that i react to them that's bugging me..
like well.. jeffery dahmar right?
i know what he did was awful ...
but i dunno.. i never once have felt anger towards him.
the only emotions i've felt towards him were..
pity , sorrow , depression , confusion ...etc.
course most of those are sorta the same emotion..anyways.
this may sound weird and please don't take it the wrong way..
but in some way i sorta feel like.. i can related to serial killers..
mentally speaking that is ..
but yeah seriously speaking here..
most of the time when i well be watching or reading about a serial killer
i well often find myself going
" oh yeah.. i know how that feels .." or " i've had thoughts like too!"
and a few times some of the parents of the killers had gotten divorces or something like that..
and i would get sorta mad and be like
" well it's no wonder he's like that now!!"
i am sorry but a lot of the time i well blame the parents ..
i mean most of the time it's their fault ..
it's just how i feel.. sometimes..
i mean seriously!
most serial killer's parents were either abusive in some way or another..
or sometimes they would be missing a parent..
and well after i know that about them.. that's sorta where the ' pity' comes from..
so anyways.. what do you guys think?
am i weird or what?
Answers:
Serial Killers ARE fascinating....and they may in fact merit a degree of ... sorrow or even sympathy due to their abusive childhoods etc. BUT the reason I am NOT worried about you is that in order to BE a serial killer you also need to be an amoral sociopath (I am using these as CLINICAL terms by the way) and it is clear from the tone of your letter you are NEITHER. Relax just about everybody loves to read or better yet watch films about serial Killers ...They ARE fascinating not only because they kill people but because of all the unanswered questions, the ritual and pathos... maybe one day you'll write biographies about serial killers....Many have gone so far as to form fan clubs and beg for their hand in marriage (Personally I would have to draw the line there). But no worries.
Best Regards,
Jason
I took a lot of psychology courses in college the forensic psychology stuff WAS far and away the most interesting...
You need counseling. See a clinical psychiatrist.
No youre not weird. Youre feeling human emotions, you are trying to understand why they did what they did. Most people cant imagine DOING what they did, but they do what you do, TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHY they did what they do. What pushed them to the edge? What made so mentally sick? And its human reasons like you listed: family abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, too much attention, or a genetic alterations in their genes. Youre not weird at all, I think youre just understanding what made them do what they do. I also experience the same thing + am a sociology major. I suggest you should take psychology and sociology courses in college to see if that is something that will appeal to you because it tells us the social and mental states of these individuals and their behaviors.
It's not weird, it really isn't. Plenty of people have grown up with childhoods they don't exactly admire or want to remember. Some people have a different mindset. They want revenge, they want people to suffer the way they did. I'm not saying I understand how they feel but it's just an opinion. It's not wrong to empathize. We're all human, we all have feelings. Similar emotions are bound to be found in all types of individuals.