Is it normal to be calmed down by violence towards others?
Hi. Is it normal to use violence as a tool to calm yourself and get rid of any impulses? Example, I suddenly get bored and distracted and my mind starts to wander; I eventually get the impulse to burn down the neighbors apartment so I can watch them scream in immolating pain, and it just becomes like an itch I can't scratch. The only way to partially scratch this itch is to repeatedly slam my meat cleaver into stuff imaginging it as people.
Is this a normal coping method for random bursts of violent desires?
Posted Oct 11, 2025, 7:41 PM UTC
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