Can you stomach it?

I've always wonder if it is being a Libran that effects me this way...My step Dad (Libran too) and I both can't stomach watching open procedure operations on telly, blood and guts displayed in some of the medical programs they have on. Mostly real life things but sometimes I will turn away from explicit TV shows. Yet if it was a real life issue I can handle it....or the experiences i have had which have only been minor with my kids, I'm stronger. The adrenelin must take over!

So is it a Libran thing to not be able to stomach blood and guts or just me and him?

i can watch a surgical procedure with no problems, but i think thats only bcuz the patient is asleep so i kno they feel no pain. i can not be around sum1 Bleeding or watch blood and guts n films. i hate horrior movies

No, I hate blood and gore as well.
But one libra girl I know is a surgeon, apparently she has gotten over it.

I am freaking great in a crisis.

Once upon a time, I was a photo journalist so I am kind of numb to the grotesque. That being said, I don't like gorry horror films.

My tummy turns and I gag, however, when I have to take out smelly garbage or clean tupperware. Even walking a dog and picking up its poop is a bit much for me. I have to think oThEr ThOuGhTs.

Sorry. Should have clarified. Tupperware that has been shuffled to the back of the fridge, forgotten, and allowed to turn various colours of mold. 😢

Like LS I am pretty numb to real life physical trauma, I go into problem solving mode. I used to be squeemish with gore in movies when I was younger but have been pretty desensitized to it because it doesn't really affect me any more.

I know another Libra who is also a martial arts instructor we were talking in a group about traumatic experiences as he and I were both fugitive recovery agents and another guy was a firefighter. The libra said that he gets a sick feeling in his stomach when he sees raw human on human violence. I don't get a sick feeling I get a feeling of rage, I hate seeing unneccissary intent to seriously injure or kill.

I used to practically be a sympathetic puker. If someone near me started puking it took every ounce of concentration to fight back the urge myself. As I got older it got less intense. I found out through drunken high school experiences that if I am assisting the person puking it don't get the gag reflex now if I see someone puke it doesn't give me a physical response, I am still pretty sensitive to hearing someone puke though. I hate that gagging sound.

i'm incredibly squeamish. i don't want to watch it. i don't want to hear stories of it. i love biology, but i can't handle disection. don't tell me how you got your scar unless you're vague. i don't need to know the details. i couldn't go to that 'bodies' exhibit that's been touring the country because the entire idea of looking at cut apart and preserved dead people makes me want to throw up. i can't look at mummies. i can't go to funerals.

if it's happening right now in front of me, i'm okay. i'm calm under pressure. not just with this sort of thing, with anything. once everything is okay, i'll probably go sit in the dark for a while and be all shellshocked for a bit. but i'm always the one who stays together during bad situations. some people have witnessed this and think i'm heartless or something. i think those people can go fuck themselves.

Looks like it is a Libran thing....obviously everyone has their own things that they can handle or not and mostly if the situation calls for it we dont flake. I hate scary movies too and couldn't watch alot of the unecessary violence that you see on some war movies particularly if they are real re-enactments. Just preferring no to see that type of movie unless it was of interest to understand what really happened back then.

Oh and congrats Nic to you and Angel 🙂

So there is an underlying theme propping up in this thread. Librans being calm or cool in emergency situations.

I have been a fugitive recovery agent with angel as my partner for a while, I sat next to my father while he died after having to make the decision to take him off life support, I have run into burning houses, saved people from drowning and countless other similar experiences I can define is acting without thinking.

Someone could go hysterical and pull a gun on me (It's happened more than once) and I would feel a lot less anxiety than when Angel and I get into a bad argument.

That is an interresting comparrison. I would rather be put in a crisis situation than have my fiance legitimately upset with me.

How many Libras here are the same/similar.

^ totally. in interpersonal conflict with anyone i care about, i almost always feel like i'm basically powerless. here and there, i'll have the occasional flash of brilliance on what to do, but mostly i'm lost. it's too emotional. the stakes are so high. in a real emergency situation, or even some minor crisis (my mom and grandma still talk about my calm under pressure one time when i got a flat going 80 on the interstate), i feel like i've got some control over the outcome. even if i really don't, at least i feel like there's something i can do.

*raises hand*

me. For sure.