What is wrong with my psyche? I find Biology and Anatomy/Physiology very depressing subjects?

Question

Seriously I feel otherworldly, disoriented and weirded out after I spend at least an hour of intense study on either one of these subjects. I can't really explain the feeling, it's very clandestine.
Anatomy and Physiology I find extremely depressing and I feel I'm the only one who feels this way.
I am not looking for advice.
I would just like to hear from other people who might have the same feelings as I do about stuff like this. And also, how do you overcome it? Is it really OK and normal to feel this way?

I don't find them so much boring as morbid. I don't like the morbid feeling from being in class and touching skulls and bones of dead people, and smelling the formaldehyde of pickled brains, if I must be so graphic to get my point across. It's an icky feeling and It makes me depressed!

Answer 1

I think what is wrong with your psyche is that you haven't yet accepted the facts put before you by anatomy/physiology courses that these things are what you are internally. I was thrilled by biology, anatomy, biochemistry , histology courses as a young man.

I had, however, been raised on a ranch and with the experiences of butchering animals for meat and in hunting (even as a child) had grown very used to what a living animal looked like inside. The courses then taught me what all those bloody parts were for and how they worked to keep an animal alive and I knew they were inside me too. It was very gratifying. It's all a matter of getting used to such and accepting death as a part of life. I was not an am not a monster. I'm sorry I can't relate.

Good luck, good mental health, peace and Love!

Answer 2

I love biology, but I get the exact same feeling you described when I'm studying certain other things.

For example, futuristic sci fi books and movies often make me feel hopelessly depressed or empty inside. And I also get the same feelings when I'm studying wars in history classes. I think for me, it's because I'm afraid of wars and a bleak, depressing future. Maybe for you, it's because you feel uncomfortable with death and the animal bodies you use in those classes.

I guess it's normal as long as it isn't affecting your life. I just try to avoid the things that make me feel that way.

Answer 3

These are just matters that bore you, in my own opinion. It's not an abnormal feeling. Certain matters make me drowsy.

No need to worry that much about that.