Fainted at sight of blood on the TV
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Have you fainted or felt extremely queasy watching something on the box e.g. blood?
I was 12 or 13 watching a BBC2 documentary with my parents about JFK assassination. It was quite graphic, showing his head fall apart and I was struggling not to faint. Not sure if my parents realized how uncomfortable this was for me.
Then in my early 20s watched Reservoir Dogs at the cinema and the scene where Michael Madsen cuts the ear off a policeman nearly made me pass out.
This did make me faint. A snuff movie clip of a young lady, in tears, having her head blown off with a gun. The wall behind her instantly turned red.
I was 12 or 13 watching a BBC2 documentary with my parents about JFK assassination. It was quite graphic, showing his head fall apart and I was struggling not to faint. Not sure if my parents realized how uncomfortable this was for me.
Then in my early 20s watched Reservoir Dogs at the cinema and the scene where Michael Madsen cuts the ear off a policeman nearly made me pass out.
This did make me faint. A snuff movie clip of a young lady, in tears, having her head blown off with a gun. The wall behind her instantly turned red.
My Brother would. He can't even talk about such things.
I'm the complete opposite and grew up watching horror movies (anything with blood and guts) watched every medical type program I could and have rushed in numerous times to help people with an injury when others were having to look away.
I'm quite fascinated by what we look like under the surface so to speak, so blood, missing limbs, shark bites, you name it, they all make me want to have a look. Morbid curiosity I suppose.
I'm the complete opposite and grew up watching horror movies (anything with blood and guts) watched every medical type program I could and have rushed in numerous times to help people with an injury when others were having to look away.
I'm quite fascinated by what we look like under the surface so to speak, so blood, missing limbs, shark bites, you name it, they all make me want to have a look. Morbid curiosity I suppose.
The cutting of the achilles tendon, and when the young Chinese girl's eye was blowtorched (both Hostel) made me go a bit queazy.
When I was younger I watched the Poseidon Adventure with my parents, and after seeing the dead guy in the engine room, stood up, with his eyes open, I had to sleep with the landing light on that night... and the rest of the week!
When I was younger I watched the Poseidon Adventure with my parents, and after seeing the dead guy in the engine room, stood up, with his eyes open, I had to sleep with the landing light on that night... and the rest of the week!
Edited by Triumph Man on Friday 8th November 08:24
BMW A6 said:
Have you fainted or felt extremely queasy watching something on the box e.g. blood?
I was 12 or 13 watching a BBC2 documentary with my parents about JFK assassination. It was quite graphic, showing his head fall apart and I was struggling not to faint. Not sure if my parents realized how uncomfortable this was for me.
Then in my early 20s watched Reservoir Dogs at the cinema and the scene where Michael Madsen cuts the ear off a policeman nearly made me pass out.
This did make me faint. A snuff movie clip of a young lady, in tears, having her head blown off with a gun. The wall behind her instantly turned red.
I'd say your 1st example was either poor form by the BBC for not placing a warning, or poor form by your parents for ignoring it...I was 12 or 13 watching a BBC2 documentary with my parents about JFK assassination. It was quite graphic, showing his head fall apart and I was struggling not to faint. Not sure if my parents realized how uncomfortable this was for me.
Then in my early 20s watched Reservoir Dogs at the cinema and the scene where Michael Madsen cuts the ear off a policeman nearly made me pass out.
This did make me faint. A snuff movie clip of a young lady, in tears, having her head blown off with a gun. The wall behind her instantly turned red.
3rd example is just a bit disturbing - I know some weird s
t exists on the internet but that's not really the sort of thing you stumble across by accident? So my question is - why watch it in the first place? 
For me, I can cope with most fictional film violence as I know it's not real. I find it harder if it's based on true life though as there is more "reality" to it. I'm less keen on the medical stuff, if the wife has a medical drama on I have to look away when they're slicing someone open or using needles.
When I was in probably year 7 or 8 we watched a sex education film in biology. We were sat on those tall stools around the benches and the film was showing the inside the tubes and following the sperm going from the testes to, well, we all know the rest.
However, the climax we got was a kid who got off the stool a bit unsteady, walked around the back of the room towards the door and, as we all chuckled and the teacher shouted "Simon, where are you going?", he fainted and bounced his head off the door knob.
But me, I keep away from films like saw and hostel as I disagree with the idea of torture porn but I'm not bothered by heads being blown apart in war films or that sort of gore. I agree with the poster above that it's completely different if it's a film or real life. I could never watch the beheadings or Mexican stuff happening now.
However, the climax we got was a kid who got off the stool a bit unsteady, walked around the back of the room towards the door and, as we all chuckled and the teacher shouted "Simon, where are you going?", he fainted and bounced his head off the door knob.
But me, I keep away from films like saw and hostel as I disagree with the idea of torture porn but I'm not bothered by heads being blown apart in war films or that sort of gore. I agree with the poster above that it's completely different if it's a film or real life. I could never watch the beheadings or Mexican stuff happening now.
OP are you Doc Martin?
I once went to hospital with something scratching my eyeball, they sat me down and said it was a piece of metal and the eye had started to grow over it as i'd left it overnight. He got a large needle and started to dig it out whilst giving me a running commentary of how things were progressing. Finally he got it out and left the room, the next thing I knew I was coming round still sat up with two nurses watching me worriedly from the other side of the room.
I have no idea how long i'd been out, but I apologised, thanked them for their help and staggered off down the corridor back to work.
I once went to hospital with something scratching my eyeball, they sat me down and said it was a piece of metal and the eye had started to grow over it as i'd left it overnight. He got a large needle and started to dig it out whilst giving me a running commentary of how things were progressing. Finally he got it out and left the room, the next thing I knew I was coming round still sat up with two nurses watching me worriedly from the other side of the room.
I have no idea how long i'd been out, but I apologised, thanked them for their help and staggered off down the corridor back to work.
227bhp said:
OP are you Doc Martin?
I once went to hospital with something scratching my eyeball, they sat me down and said it was a piece of metal and the eye had started to grow over it as i'd left it overnight. He got a large needle and started to dig it out whilst giving me a running commentary of how things were progressing. Finally he got it out and left the room, the next thing I knew I was coming round still sat up with two nurses watching me worriedly from the other side of the room.
I have no idea how long i'd been out, but I apologised, thanked them for their help and staggered off down the corridor back to work.
That, and reading about the girl who had her eyes tattooed make my toes curl.I once went to hospital with something scratching my eyeball, they sat me down and said it was a piece of metal and the eye had started to grow over it as i'd left it overnight. He got a large needle and started to dig it out whilst giving me a running commentary of how things were progressing. Finally he got it out and left the room, the next thing I knew I was coming round still sat up with two nurses watching me worriedly from the other side of the room.
I have no idea how long i'd been out, but I apologised, thanked them for their help and staggered off down the corridor back to work.
I don't mind injections but I cannot watch the needle being pushed in and I could never inject anybody else or cut the with a knife.
Blood doesn't worry me, at all. On tv/film? that's not real anyway. Only time I worry (naturally) about blood is if it's my own!
I have WCS so don't like docs (going to them).
I learnt very early on (just 17 yrs old) when a doc stuck a hyperdeemic nurdle
into my right bk 
to drain fluid that wasn't there but some blood was, that lots of people in many professions are not cracked up to be nearly anywhere as good as they think they are!
This was in a well-known NHS medical teaching authority area , and young me naively gave permission for half a doz med students to watch the procedure.
Well, we all have to learn somewhere, eh?
I still see their gobs dropping open and eyes wide to this day!
So from that moment on, I became a bit squeamish about the sight of (my own) blood. I realised that doctors, surgeons, nurses, any medical staff, are just like any other profession. Some are fking brilliant at what they do. Some should be a fking million miles from the profession! Just like you can get (bent) coppers, (rogue) salesmen/women, (useless) advisors, (st) mechanics - met one of those early too! - and so on.
I don't have a problem giving blood. It's afterwards. Best one was when I gave a syringe full, nurse said you ok? Yep, I'm fine. Like heck!
Next thing I'm looking up at ceiling lights and two pairs of nurses legs (standing) virtually astride me
after using something(?) to bring me round.
Not exactly blood, but blood pressure - I have the distinction of having lain on a trolley outside the operating theatre for over 30 mins, waiting to go in.
All had been fine until the theatre anaesthetist was about to give me the general anaesthetic and his jaw dropped after he took my BP.
One nurse said 'You should be dead!'
Can't recall the exact reading but it was F HIGH!
I tried hard to explain to them that it was just me and wcs. More readings were taken and it gradually came down.
Not enough for them. They refused to operate and I went home!
I have WCS so don't like docs (going to them).
I learnt very early on (just 17 yrs old) when a doc stuck a hyperdeemic nurdle
into my right bk to drain fluid that wasn't there but some blood was, that lots of people in many professions are not cracked up to be nearly anywhere as good as they think they are! This was in a well-known NHS medical teaching authority area , and young me naively gave permission for half a doz med students to watch the procedure.
Well, we all have to learn somewhere, eh?
I still see their gobs dropping open and eyes wide to this day!
So from that moment on, I became a bit squeamish about the sight of (my own) blood. I realised that doctors, surgeons, nurses, any medical staff, are just like any other profession. Some are f
king brilliant at what they do. Some should be a fking million miles from the profession! Just like you can get (bent) coppers, (rogue) salesmen/women, (useless) advisors, (st) mechanics - met one of those early too! - and so on.I don't have a problem giving blood. It's afterwards. Best one was when I gave a syringe full, nurse said you ok? Yep, I'm fine. Like heck!
Next thing I'm looking up at ceiling lights and two pairs of nurses legs (standing) virtually astride me
after using something(?) to bring me round.Not exactly blood, but blood pressure - I have the distinction of having lain on a trolley outside the operating theatre for over 30 mins, waiting to go in.
All had been fine until the theatre anaesthetist was about to give me the general anaesthetic and his jaw dropped after he took my BP.
One nurse said 'You should be dead!'
Can't recall the exact reading but it was F HIGH!
I tried hard to explain to them that it was just me and wcs. More readings were taken and it gradually came down.
Not enough for them. They refused to operate and I went home!
Only ever fainted when I've injured myself.
For example, I dropped a double radiator onto my finger with a tiled floor underneath. That cut through to the bone and sent me away.
Oh and I passed out when I was having a small chunk of muscle cut out of my leg for a sample. Doing that under local was not the best of ideas by the hospital.
Would never faint at something on the TV, but I don't watch real life gory stuff like operations anyway. Don't mind films though.
For example, I dropped a double radiator onto my finger with a tiled floor underneath. That cut through to the bone and sent me away.
Oh and I passed out when I was having a small chunk of muscle cut out of my leg for a sample. Doing that under local was not the best of ideas by the hospital.
Would never faint at something on the TV, but I don't watch real life gory stuff like operations anyway. Don't mind films though.
Zetec-S said:
3rd example is just a bit disturbing - I know some weird st exists on the internet but that's not really the sort of thing you stumble across by accident? So my question is - why watch it in the first place?
There was a rudimentary website, called something like getbusted which just had a very long list of pictures and videos, mixture of accident photos, autopsies, suicide bomber remains, curiosity porn etc. No real clue that the video of about 10 seconds was an attractive woman about to get her head blown out.t exists on the internet but that's not really the sort of thing you stumble across by accident? So my question is - why watch it in the first place? Gassing Station | Health Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff