Am I the only one who gets disturbed by medical dramas?

[Anonymous]

As much as I love a good sob-fest, I find movies or tv shows featuring illness or hospitals or terminal illness just scares and depresses me SO MUCH. Its hard for me to watch Grey's for example, because of the emphasis on sickness and depressing diseases.

Am I the only one who feels that way?

[Anonymous]

No you are not. I don't watch those!

[Anonymous]

I don't mind the illnesses but I can't watch surgical shows.

[Anonymous]

I felt that way when I was going through an illness that required a biopsy and later a surgery. It was just so depressing and difficult for me, and seeing it on tv just brought it all back. Several tears later, and I'm back to being desensitized to it, although i don't really watch any of those shows regularly .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I felt that way when I was going through an illness that required a biopsy and later a surgery. It was just so depressing and difficult for me, and seeing it on tv just brought it all back. Several tears later, and I'm back to being desensitized to it, although i don't really watch any of those shows regularly .

Ha, typo. I meant several YEARS later. Not tears. But yeah, the tears are all over now too

[Anonymous]

No, you're not, OP. I feel the same.

Family member going through serious illness and I avoid medical dramas. Also dislike tv commercials for drugs for serious illnesses as they're a constant reminder of real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As much as I love a good sob-fest, I find movies or tv shows featuring illness or hospitals or terminal illness just scares and depresses me SO MUCH. Its hard for me to watch Grey's for example, because of the emphasis on sickness and depressing diseases.

Am I the only one who feels that way?

I can't watch Grey's b/c the terrible acting and scripts are depressing.

[Anonymous]

Hard for me to watch cop dramas because unarmed people who look like me keep getting killed and beaten by the police.

[Anonymous]

My husband is like you, OP. Stresses him out. He gave me such crap for watching the entire run of ER that I never even started watching Grey's.

[Anonymous]

I'm the opposite and totally gravitate to these shows. I live for the summer reality medical shows that ABC usually runs. I should have gone to nursing school but didn't (instead a semi-related field) and think I missed my calling.

[Anonymous]

I don't watch medical dramas, crime shows, the news, or horror movies. I have enough worries IRL without needing to add to them.

[Anonymous]

Havent watched one since Quincy in the 80's

[Anonymous]

I just don't deal well with blood and gore. I made the mistake of trying to watch er when it was first on by tuning in to the episode Quentin Tarantino directed. There was a kid with a coat hanger stuck in his throat. I nearly puked.

[Anonymous]

I was a huge fan of ER in its day, but as I've become older, I can't watch those medical dramas anymore. It's good to hear that I'm not the only one who feels this way.

[Anonymous]

I'm ok with shows but have a tough time with the news.