ive never watched the office but i saw loads of people online saying this one episode was super cringy and the second hand embarrassment stopped them from even watching it (it’s ‘scott’s tots’ for any fans who know!!). anyways, i just watched that episode and i didn’t really feel… anything. like i was a little sad for the kids who’s tuition couldn’t be paid for but i didn’t feel cringed out or anything. i’m scared this means i lack empathy because EVERYONE feels embarrassed for michael in that scene. but then i guess i have no connection to him as a character since i’ve never watched the show, so it doesn’t mean much to me because of that? i hope. i also find that i don’t feel much second hand embarrassment from tv shows or movies because they aren’t authentic to me. i get it way more from ‘real’ things like interviews or real life instances like performers or comedians etc. in fact i feel like i get it quite a lot in the real world. but just never in tv shows or films, which worries me. someone on reddit said they also didn’t feel embarrassed for michael and a person commented saying they are a psychopath :(

I have harm ocd and I’m rewatching the sopranos obviously there’s a lot of violence on the show. Would this be exposures for me?? I don’t feel super triggered or anxiety watching it which i think is a plus for me. I’ve been in therapy since march and think I made a lot of progress because i haven’t watched anything like this since my relapse.

I've been watching a lot of mainly political videos recently. It started as trying to get a better understanding of everything going on in the world and how we got here in the first place, but one of the last videos I came across was about certain hateful groups of people that are becoming more active in recent years due to varying factors. The whole video made me so uncomfortable. Rightfully so, I think, even if it was informative. But now I can't stop thinking about how scary it is that humans can be sort of indoctrinated into such hateful mindsets and views... These issues have existed for a long time in the US, but recently, I've noticed that a lot of people are being more vocal about certain discriminatory views they hold and things. Maybe I'm overloading myself with too much information. I don't know. I'm just feeling really unsettled after that video. I can't imagine ever becoming someone like that, but it scares me to think about :(

i feel bad because i used to watch these people on pornhub who made videos that appeal to people with teen fetishized things and stuff like that. but i wouldn’t watch that role play stuff or any of that, like certain videos i would avoid because of that. but i liked the videos in general, i just didn’t watch any of that stuff or i would ignore it until it got something i did like. but i stopped watching them all together because it got too weird and i realized that i shouldn’t support them at all, even if i wasn’t watching that stuff. but now i feel bad for watching around that stuff, i liked the videos it was basic porn past that stuff and that’s what i would watch.