Someone psychoanalyze me...What is wrong with me?

Question

Ok, I'm just going to lay it all out there....

Lately I have been going to Google News and searching for news articles about teenagers who have been killed in car crashes...then I look at their name and where it occurred and look them up on Myspace and read the sad goodbye's and RIPs that their friends and loved-ones leave in their comments. I don't know why I do this, but I can't stop and I do it for hours. I don't torture small animals or anything or have morbid fantasies...I am actually quite saddened by it...but I feel compeled to keep doing it.

Any amateur (or professional) psychologists care to lend an opinion about my f***ed up hobby?

Answer 1

don't worrie its called a obsessed browser

like me i cant stop browsing for aliens and supernatual things and at the end of the day im scared to sleep

everything will be alright man :[

Answer 2

lol i don't believe in psychoanalysis. i'm pro behavioral or cognative therapies:) which means..no focusing on subconscious. all about your thoughts and actions and how you feel about them. so basically, if you think your new hobby is something bad, then you will disorder yourself.  

Answer 3

I'm no shrink, but you just need to find a hobby you are happier with.  You probably just fell into this, and now it is the way you spend your time.  Find other ways to spend your time and you will spend less time doing this.  Obviously, it bothers you to some degree or you wouldn't be concerned about it.  I don't think it is any major psychological flaw in you - you just need to find other things to take up your time.  Take a class, take up drinking in bars, find a girl to date, etc.  anything else to fill your time.  Good luck.  

Answer 4

Something must have triggered you wanting to do this... someone you know that you may have lost- or you heard a sad story about someone that was killed.  It's not the best way to spend your time but I can't say that there would have to be something wrong with you for doing it.  Stuff like this is a lot deeper than surface, so if you are truly concerned- perhaps you should consult a counselor.

Answer 5

Are you lonely depressed and feel left out? This is just an educated

guess,if you feel this way you may be projecting your feelings onto

these happenings and on some level feeling good when you read

"sad goodbyes and RIP" You have to see a therapist and i suggest

a Psychoanalytic Therapist. You can be happy again,good luck

Answer 6

I'm not a psychologist but in my opinion you really are sad inside but don't know exactly why so you depend on these tragedies to give a reason to your sadness.

Answer 7

you lead an average life. you have never experienced death. somewhere deep inside you are curious about how it must feel to lose someone. you want to be able to merely have a taste of the tragedy and feel even just a glimpse of the mourning, sadness and morbidness.

secondly, like all humans, you are intrigued by death because you don't quite understand it.  

Answer 8

ive seen several incidences of this.

Some people think that they can kinda absorb the pain of the others

Others think they can make themselves feel better about something in their life by feeling other's pain

Answer 9

That is a very interesting hobby and a bit morbid but your doing no harm.  Maybe you are hoping, when you die, you will get the attention all these young people are getting.  How did you even think that up?  Anyway, it may be f***ed up but I'm sure you'll get bored of it sooner or later.  It's no big deal really. Good luck!

Answer 10

Hmmm...brb for this one.

Answer 11

sounds to me like you're a victim of boredom.

Answer 12

I think you are just curious to see who this person was. They were so young, had their whole life ahead of them and poof, gone. I am that way too, not doing it for hours, but for awhile there I was doing it a lot. I would look at death photos, not autopsy, but the photos of the place of death. Then I would take in all the elements in the picture and look at the person's face, their clothes and feel such sorrow for them, who did they leave behind, how many people loved them, if they had just stayed home that day...If it was a really gruesome death, that made me feel even worse, how it must affect their mothers, that was their baby. Yes, I know it isn't healthy, to an extent, but it a way to peer into this person's life without leaving home. Kind of like the old fly on the wall.