Horror movie

It's just a movie. You are not the monster you see on screen, and you never will be. In the future, try to watch movies which are more positive/uplifting. Or at least watch movies where the protagonist is a good person. I used to watch a lot of crime shows, until I started fearing that I would become like the violent criminals I saw on screen. So I stopped watching crime shows. If horror movies are triggering you, you should avoid watching them.

You could check out this book “Overcoming Harm OCD” by Jon Hershfield https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Harm-OCD-Mindfulness-Unwanted/dp/1684031478/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2UBL3JM216JVA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fwPOeL0tZ_puseq_zFg089uW_FtO9Qlj2ED09-44acitrzIf5eCigcApN-udAA4FZis1MAF_XZDKICSJSbD2UhkxSryT0YMb9zfhPMfUcBIiyU3Mw-seSVOE2u7Ay4q8P0yRISQL3XRoB50ZYYax59okopmelf9YmUXRCxdzMVZSVbioJ0gbvci9UNUNAZP2lREcI_z8b4zELwiqV7qnWQ.DeljZ9lUHvUZin7L45rxcOCQd0ffLsOK7Am7VLyaFkU&dib_tag=se&keywords=overcoming+harm+ocd&qid=1740619654&sprefix=overcoming+harm%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-1

Hi, the best thing to do is not try to fix it, as that actually makes our thoughts worse. Try watching the movie and sitting with the thoughts that you might become it. In ERP therapy, I started by watching at least 10 minutes (as much as I could tolerate) and sat with the distress.

What would it mean to be a horror movie guy? Would it be triggering? One line I often say is that a person who writes for horror films and a person with OCD could have the exact same image, and the person with OCD will start to do a compulsion while the person who writes horror films will write a scene about the image and put it into a movie and make millions of dollars.

Listen, horror movies are awesome! I love them. I'm a horror movie guy myself. Have been since I was a kid. In fact, I write them professionally RIGHT NOW. There's nothing wrong with them. Embrace your love of horror -- loving them says nothing about your values. The amount of times I've heard people say "Wow, what must be wrong with people who write horror movies? Their minds must be so twisted." As someone who writes horror movies, my argument is A) it's art so who cares and B) if anything, folks who love/write horror are actually processing their complicated, messy, scary feelings instead of holding them inside. Honestly, horror people are probably more in touch with the totality of their being... While this is only half applicable here, it's such a funny saying I have to share: It's not the people who write horror movies you have to be worried about, it's the people who write rom-coms.