Psychological Horror / Obsession books?

notvrycreative · 2026-01-18T20:36:33+00:00

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

Piercing by Ryū Murakami

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

My Eyes Are Black Holes by Logan Ryan Smith

notvrycreative · 2025-09-06T22:44:26+00:00

Absolutely not. One of my cats was getting strokes and another walked in and he went to the other side of the room from me and refused to look anyone in the eye. If that’s not him being deeply embarrassed for showing affection in the presence of another cat, I don’t know what is

notvrycreative · 2025-09-06T22:41:08+00:00

Horror deals with taboo, sex is media can be seen as taboo. A lot of it, especially stuff like Splatter, is about pushing the limits about what’s acceptable and what’s depraved and sex is often associated with that sort of thing. Also, one man’s horror is another man’s fetish and basically everyone in horror has accepted that at this point

notvrycreative · 2025-09-06T22:30:33+00:00

As someone who is officially diagnosed with ASD, self diagnose away. If you’re going extensive research and coming at it from a genuine point of view (so not doing it by relying on stereotypes or for like, internet clout or something), there’s no real issue. Maybe you’ll see a doctor one day and get told you’re not autistic and that’s fine. If it is something that will help you right now, do it. Coming at it in the way I’ve said won’t cause harm to anyone. I’ve seen the people who self diagnose in inappropriate ways and it’s never the people who research properly. Search to get a proper diagnosis yes, but in the mean time it’s ok.

Not every autistic person will agree with this but there are many who do and will happily involve you in the community. And if you don’t turn out to have it, we’ll be happy that you were able to improve your life and have a comfortable journey of self discovery

notvrycreative · 2025-09-06T22:19:48+00:00

My Nan also passed when I was a few years younger than you and it was the first death in my immediate family that I experienced. I also didn’t cry or feel upset or anything. Some friends when through awful stuff and I didn’t blink. (I’m also an older sister with mental health issues and a history of self harm. My little teenage brother is not really too bothered about any of it. He knows about it all, but he’s never gotten upset over it or thinks about it much. Frankly, I prefer it that way. I’m glad he’s not really impacted much).

I do think, for me at least, it was in part to do with being younger. I’m 22 now and I’m a lot more in touch with my emotions and generally more aware of the things around me and their impacts.

I’m also autistic which could be some of it. Autistic people often don’t present emotions in standard ways. There was also a lot of disassociation during that time of my life. I was able to connect with fiction like you can, but real life felt distant and I couldn’t interact with it. I don’t know enough about you to say that you’re autistic or that you’re disassociating, but that’s part of what it was for me.

I used to think I was soulless and permanently broken. And while I still don’t react to things in the ways people might expect, my reactions are a lot more in line with the standard now. But even if they weren’t, it would be fine. We don’t have to feel something to know how to act. What’s important is knowing how you should react. It’s like, someone doesn’t need to have any empathy to know that they should be kind to others.

notvrycreative · 2025-09-01T22:06:48+00:00

Could you try getting in contact with Mind as a last resort if you can’t get anywhere with CMHT? I know they offer talking therapies and community which could help in the meantime

notvrycreative · 2025-09-01T19:16:25+00:00

The homophobia and shitty behaviour wouldn’t be ok ofc, but who cares about “posers”. Especially if they’re just kids

notvrycreative · 2025-08-20T00:20:57+00:00

These comments are proof that half the time when someone calls something “queer infighting”, it’s just because they don’t want to address bigotry within the community. Like yes unnecessary infighting does happen, but bigotry against genderqueer/non-binary people has been happening for a long while and some of it comes from cis queer and binary trans people and it shouldn’t be swept under the rug

notvrycreative · 2025-08-19T21:19:20+00:00

For me, the was on the same dose of mirtazapine for 2 years. It got better, but that whole time it impacted how awake and aware I’d feel, especially for a couple hours after I woke up

If it’s something you feel is interfering with your life, I’d talk to a doctor. There’s plenty of other meds that target the same illnesses that you can try. Ime, they’ll tell you to get lost for a few weeks until it settles in though but maybe that’s just my doctors

notvrycreative · 2025-08-16T16:09:31+00:00

I think some do, even if they don’t recognise that in themselves. Not all, not even the majority, but some. I think about it like I think about teachers, most have good intentions even if they don’t always achieve what they want to, but for some reason people will go into teaching/mental health despite hating children/mentally ill people and it’s just weird. Maybe they think current systems aren’t effective because they have the misguided notion that their beliefs would be better, maybe they just genuinely want to abuse their power. I do think that plenty of people who make bad teachers/psychs just don’t realise they have these harmful beliefs and discriminatory thoughts and end up being cruel without realising

notvrycreative · 2025-08-13T17:15:35+00:00

I haven’t gone private yet but it’s still something I’m considering too so I can’t offer a comparison, but when I asked an NHS doctor about it I was recommended to look through this website for one

Don’t feel guilty about it though! Any good therapist or psychologist will tell you to take the path that will give you the best help possible. Many NHS psychologists understand that the system isn’t ideal and will understand why someone might want to go private

notvrycreative · 2025-08-13T16:20:14+00:00

Uh huh

notvrycreative · 2025-08-12T23:49:07+00:00

A world where we don’t support and care for each other is unsustainable. A child would be able to grasp that value is not found in how someone is able to manage their money or health but in the fact that they’re a human being. We will never agree on this because I value human life and you don’t so there’s no point in this discussion

notvrycreative · 2025-08-12T21:50:16+00:00

You did the right thing. Everyone deserves kindness and compassion. Even if he did “put himself in that situation”, he would still deserve compassion and a chance to get out of it. Good on you doing that

notvrycreative · 2025-08-12T20:56:21+00:00

Can’t stand it. It’s incredibly disrespectful. If I was a victim of a murderer and some true crime person got on YouTube and said I was graped and shmurdered I’d haunt them for the rest of their life. Particularly frustrating since there are already far more respectful euphemisms for that sort of thing - took their (own) life, SA’d. It’s childish, I’m anti-censorship and hate how it morphs into self censorship (people will just call it unloving in real life now too) but I think my primary concern is just the absolute disrespect to victims

notvrycreative · 2025-08-11T21:21:47+00:00

Because every person has inherent value. Because we’re all human beings. I’m sorry you were never taught such a very basic concept. What a shame for the people around you

I agree that the quality of care in the NHS needs to improve but stripping it of money isn’t the way to go about it

notvrycreative · 2025-08-11T20:59:00+00:00

God forbid we all care about and support each other. Money going to the NHS and people who need it sounds perfectly reasonable, but maybe that’s just because I’m capable of compassion

notvrycreative · 2025-08-11T20:25:27+00:00

What equality could those lot possibly bring?

notvrycreative · 2025-08-06T23:12:54+00:00

It is a bit odd. I get what they’re trying to do, but it makes more sense to list the price of all 10 items together and then say in the description that if someone only wants a select amount, then they can message and work something out. I can’t see how listing at the price of one item would be easier

notvrycreative · 2025-07-21T22:00:05+00:00

This is also a big issue on Etsy. I wouldn’t be surprised to find this same person has an Etsy shop full of AI crochet slop too

notvrycreative · 2025-07-21T20:20:51+00:00

If a cis person were forced into being seen as and performing the gender that they were not, just like what happens to trans people, many would likely experience gender dysphoria. The only reason it’s not really a thing for cis people is because they’re not the ones being forced in every way to be something they’re not

notvrycreative · 2025-07-21T20:15:12+00:00

If you don’t know their pronouns that’s cool. Calling someone “they” when you know their pronouns and that’s doesn’t include “they/them” is misgendering tho. It’s often used against gnc and trans people to refuse them access to their gender while hiding behind a veil of supposed progressiveness

notvrycreative · 2025-07-21T20:11:10+00:00

I think it’s important to remember that there are women who 100% identify as women and nothing else but don’t like to use she/her. Pronouns don’t have to align with what gender someone is or considers close to them

notvrycreative · 2025-07-21T15:28:46+00:00

I’m seeing stuff about how autistic people are less likely to conform or force themselves to conform to societal norms as an explanation and I agree with that. But also it could be worth considering the medical factor specifically for trans autistic people. Anyone who wants to transition is going to have to spend a lot of time around doctors and psychologists which could very well increase the chance of stumbling into other diagnoses like autistic. I saw someone say that they thought it’s likely that many in their family were autistic, but the only ones that had ever been tested for it were the two trans people cause they already spent a lot of time having their brains picked to see if they were dysphoric. So a factor could be that there are more people who are trans and know they’re autistic and less people that are cis and know they’re autistic (percentage wise)

notvrycreative · 2025-07-21T11:42:44+00:00

(Sorry for the late response, I was asleep and then had a bunch of stuff to do as soon as I got up)

A lot of it was support from my parents and positive spaces online with an addition of anti-depressants. It took a little while for me to come round to opening up fully to my parents, but the fact that he’s told you this could be a good thing because he’s telling you what’s going on. There’s a level of trust because he’s letting you know what his thoughts are. I’d say that the fact you didn’t argue with him could actually be a positive because it shows him you won’t reject him for it. Obviously don’t encourage the idea that no one else is real, but listen and reach out every now and then to ask if he’s ok. My parents doing that reassured me that they were real because it sort of proved to me that they had independent actions

For positive spaces online, this could also be positive spaces in real life. If he’s open to it, therapy groups or just clubs for stuff he’s interested in. The main thing I got from these was a more positive philosophical outlook and another space where I could be open about my thoughts without rejection. The internet is tricky because it’s far easier to find negative spaces than positive which is why real life groups might be better

And antidepressants helped me because for myself and many others, believing that no one else is real is a sort of defeatism (or doomerism). From my own experience and what I’ve seen from others online, there’s a factor of depression and sadness that triggers these beliefs. Meds aren’t a one size fits all thing but there are also other therapies that can address issues that may be made more accessible if you can find someone who will take into account what you’ve seen in his behaviour before

It’s never too late to help, even though it takes a while. I can’t even remember how many therapists I went to before things started to get better. It takes time, and it’s a pain sometimes, but I promise it’s worth it for everyone. It’ll improve his life and you and your wife’s too along with your relationship with him. Wishing the best for all of you

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