thread: a bit sensitive - news headlines have me in tears!

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  1. #1
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    Aug 2006
    On the other side of this screen!!!
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    Yep me too. I pretty much stopped following the news, it was too hard.

    I also only read happy books and watched happy movies/tv. Just couldn't cope with anything else.

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    Oct 2008
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    I get it when I watch the news and read the newspaper too. Especially when babies and young children are mentioned.

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    Oct 2007
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    I've been extremely emotional lately so I virtually cry over anything but I do remember when I first got my BFP Jane McGrath died shortly after and that in particular had me in tears every time I saw it on the news. I was watching the trailer to the Marley & Me movie on you tube last weekend and when DH walked in the room I was a mess (I'm a real animal lover & if you've read the book you will be able to relate to my insanity) and he'd thought something was really wrong. I just let the tears flow when they want to, I'm not good at holding it in it just makes me worse.

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    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
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    I remember watching the LA riots dripping tears onto my newborn girl. It was awful and I really thought I made a mistake bringing her into the world.

    So no news until children are.......ummm 35!

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    Apr 2008
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    Yep same here! Last time I was pregnant a horse had to be put down after breaking down during the running of the Melbourne Cup - I cried for weeks after whenever I thought about the poor horse

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    Yep, I used to be a news junkie but I avoid anything to do with harm to children, famines and hey, I even have to turn over these days if I'm watching a wildlife program and a bear cub has got separated from Mummy Bear.

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    I think it is pretty natural to feel those feelings. I have always been animal mad and have always been especially sensitive to animal cruelty stories. Child stories made me uncomfortable but not to the same extent. Now I have DS I find myself overly sensitive to both, especially if the child is the same age as DS or one of his cousins because I feel it like I have lost one of them IYKWIM. I don't think you go back to being the same but you start to learn your limits.