Anyone else find shooting stressful? Even at home sometimes

>>33532309
Do you ever get stressed out over other tasks that carry risk or require a lot of attention?

>>33532341
Not driving, but studying and meeting deadlines and stuff I find quite stressful yeah.

>>33532348
You probably just suffer from anxiety then. There's nothing about shooting that makes it relaxing, and to a lot of people with anxiety, the biological response to things that excite you (roller coasters, sex, and in this case, firearms) can be turned to irrational fear in the brain.

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>>33532401
Cont.

Now that I think about it, one of my friends who suffers with terrible anxiety gave me almost verbatem the same fearful thoughts about his phobia of sex.

>"I am always self-concious that I may be doing something wrong to her."
>"What if she gets turned off or I accidently hurt her?"

A lot of this kind of shit develops at an early age, and might be related to certain trauma. Anyway, I'm not a shrink, but the first step to solving a problem is looking at it for what it may really be.

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>>33532401
That sounds about right. To anyone with the same problem, I usually listen to Christian hymns afterwards as they have a quite good calming and cooling effect.

>>33532472
That really sucks. I had some pussified parents, which is a double edged sword. No trauma, but I'm having to make up now for all the discipline and maturity I lost by having parents who spoiled me.

Anyway, Stefan Molyneux I think has a lot of videos talking about peaceful parenting, and how to cope with the results of childhood trauma.

>>33532309

I have pretty bad anxiety since my dad passed away last year. I find shooting extremely relaxing, I also meditate to help take the edge off the worrying

>>33532309
As someone who has a lot of stress and anxiety issues due to feeling a lack of control in my life, shooting out in the woods is a relaxing and positive experience for me because it's an activity that puts me in control of a situation without needing to worry about what anyone else is doing. Everything that happens is up to me and only me. I get some of the same feeling when I'm tinkering around with mechanical things or drawing.

Honestly no. I used to be, but only in the first year of gun ownership.

I know it sounds bad, but guns and shooting are almost toy-like to me now. I still treat them with respect and follow all the safety guidelines, but that's kind of ingrained into my subconscious now and I don't even think about it.

I guess once you've taken them apart enough times they're just another mechanical object.

>>33532309
Buy a nice single-shot or bolt-action .22 rifle, go to an outdoor range on off hours when it's not crowded, and enjoy.