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Pyromaniac?
Yesterday is really registered to me that I like to burn things/ light things on fire. I wasted my entire brand new lighter the other night on burning different things. Something about watching the flames arise and then die out feels good. Not sure if it's calming good or what, but I feel something. I've read up in pyromania and I don't know if that would apply to me or not
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Everyone likes to burn things. Sort of-
Call it natural scientific curiosity, or some biological thing where in caveman times a campfire = warmth, civilisation and sometimes light in darkness, and safety causing relief and calming effect.
A lot of teens go through the "pyromaniac" thing where we like to watch stuff burn.
Where I live there were several incidents involving fires in parks and fireworks.
In fact, having been interested in pyromania and physcology I once read somewhere that its difficult to tell between teen/childhood experimentation and full physiological pyromania because they both involve these feelings of calm or gratification. Pyromania is very very rare in girls as well. So you may have nothing to worry about.
What is interesting is you can't pinpoint these feelings.
(There are also pyrophiles which are a little weirder than pyromaniacs)
However if it is causing really strong feelings- and you feel they are getting stronger, as adviceman rightly said, please see a phyciatrist.
It is not exactly a safe hobby and you may end up losing control of the flames and endangering lives.
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Are you a pyromaniac? I can't say I'm not a psychiatrist and I cannot make that diagnosis. What I am is a retired firefighter and I would not want someone who likes to see fires burn living in mine or my sons response area for eventually that person is going to light something that burns beyond their control. Then we get called.
When that happens, it also happens people die. Sometimes it is the person who lit the fire because they become trapped and we can't get to them until it's too late. Fire is a strange beast, just when we think we know what it will do it does something else. Fire is totally unpredictable. This is why it is so dangerous.
Someone like you whose only intention is to watch something burnout may not intend to burn down a building but it does happen. It happened because fire is unpredictable and through unintended carelessness.
I have told you all this to make you aware that fire is dangerous even in the best of controlled circumstances. You may be calmed by it one moment and scared to death by it the next. You may or may not fit the clinical definition of a pyromaniac I can't say.
For your own safety and the safety of other I urge you to see a psychiatrist and be treated for whatever this problem is as it is not healthy. Talk to your parents before you accidently burn the house down and hurt them or worse.
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