Realitycrash said:
Car-crash. Two cars doing 40Mph hitting eachother full-frontal. Noone was wearing seatbelts, only one out of four survived. I was six, and me and my dad were on a vacation in Spain. We were wandering along a local road on the way into town.
I still remember their faces..Blue and broken, with blood everywhere. I think it's the cause of my slight autophobia (what, not a correct word for "scared-of-cars"? Well, BITE ME!)
Actually, what you are experiencing is likely Post Tramatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to a certain degree. I am not a psychologist, but I study a bit of human thought and processes, but only a doctor can say YES this is what you have. But basically, people that witness or even worse, live through a tramatic experience like that often carry a new sense of perception on the world. It leads to extreme depression, isolationism, and elevated fears about doing things similar to what was witnessed. Sometimes it gets worse, and the only way people are able to deal with it is to develope an obsessive compulsive disorder to decrease the stress of life. It starts out small and simple, some people would maybe never take the highway again for example, or others might have to lock the doors 10 times and check their seatbelt a dozen times throughout the car trip. Others attempt to treat both conditions with self medication, that sometimes is effective, but often leads to more problems if a compulsion about the drug-use becomes evident.
Which brings up another issue close to my heart, public health care. Most Americans have fairly low levels of health compared to the rest of the devloped world. I am not just talking about weight and smoking but particularly mental health. And mental health is just as valid as cancer or other diseases, as you might have something happen to you while you are driving and hit someone, like pass out of have a seizure. But with mental health, you might go out and go on a rampage killing many more people, on purpose! But mental health is a stigma in the workplace and society, and is considered taboo to your medical records to be deemed to have some ailment. But where I am getting with this, is that America spends so much money on "fighting crime" domestically and internationally, that it often forgets to treat the source of the problem. We are very reactive to situations, such as we fix a problem AFTER it has become a disaster, instead of being proactive and stopping the problem from getting worse. But really, we NEED some sort of health care reform before it gets too late.
Last note, I think most people are suffering from some level of sociopathic disorders. Here is wiki's version:
sociopath so·ci·o·path (sô'sç-ə-pâth', -shç-)
n.
A person affected with an antisocial personality disorder.
Most people don't really get along with people if they don't know them. What that means in a liberal way, is that the don't think about the ramifications of their actions to society. And in fact, apathy is making a choice. Doing nothing, is doing something. It was an active choice not to react. But basically not caring through apathy, is similar to not carrying about society by your actions. So in a way, we all need a bit of help.