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Do you read Misery-Lit books?

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By that I mean all the books like David Peltzer, When Rabbit Cries, Ugly etc.. all those bio's from survivors of horrific childhoods. I used to read the books one after the other. Then I started to realise I was becoming numb to their suffering and was comparing the authors level of suffering against others in order to rate it a good read or not. I no longer read any Misery-Lit style books.
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I have...they did not desensatize me in anyway...I got a fuller understanding at a young age of what is in the hearts of....people...will not genderize that as I was just about to...

my childhood was bad...but not tragic...some of it I was able to come to grips with simply by reading those kinds of books...come to grips does not mean understand...or forgive...
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I had a period of time when I was obsessed with "abuse" stories. Incest also reigned for a long time. I've always been obsessed with serial killers and that is still true and always will be, but that has more to do with my side of psychological study. I think the incest/childhood abuse stories were more of a comparison sort of thing to see if mine was "bad" enough or whatever. It was a sick f'd up time that I'm glad I'm past.
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i read them, i used 2 read them and try and find out how they got out of it, or how they managed 2 start 2 move on and try it, but it never seemed to work and i used 2 get worse because i felt jelous theyd moved ona dn i coulndt. but now i can read them as stories(ok true stories or whatever) but i read them for what they are.
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No....I loathe those kind of books.

I have a friend who keeps sending me graphic photos of abuse victim articles via email (she was abused too) even though I have told her 100's of times that it offends me.
Shai
Shai
i read them to see how they coped with it or overcame it...but...their methods didn't really pertain to me. i don't feel comfortable talking to therapists (i've been through three in-person, and two over the phone)...i just haven't found the one that worked.

i'm numb to it...yet not. when it happens to me...i don't fight back...i just freeze up.

i read about other peoples' experiences and begin to feel guilty for ever feeling that my experiences were bad...when i "compare" my experiences with other people, mine doesn't look so bad...and that's why i try to shut up and stop venting about it...
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i read these type of books all the time, i watch horror movies as well (but look away when sex senes are on tv/movies). I just read a book that i didnt think would turn out the way it did (the main charater was sexualy abused) but from the beginning of the book you would have only guess that they would only experience neglect not physical or sexual abuse. i couldnt put the boook down i was reading it but imagining the pictures thats what i do when i read i put myself as the character.
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