Feel uncomfortable watching people socializing normally on your favorite TV shows?
We’re adjusting to a new normal, and that changes how we feel about TV.
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Whoa, remember restaurants,I whispered to my dad.
(Okay, Riverdale breaks even when it comes to danger.)
Weve adjusted because of fear and social pressure, says clinical psychologistAimee Daramus, PsyD.
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Ugh, shes probably right.
She also points out that the exact reason you might be uncomfortable is probably personal.
So if youre feeling uncomfortable while watching something, ask yourself what could be triggering it.
Someone else might feel excluded or lonely from watching others get together.
Christ, a quarantine #mood if Ive ever heard one.
So,Mad MenI can handle, because it vividly and visually feels divorced from this reality.
But watching something even within a 20 to 30 year range of our times personallyoffends.Whats with that?
It might be because because the period piece is a world weve never been to, says Dr. Daramus.
Now more than ever we should be taking care of ourselves.
It might change day to day as were all adjusting to a new normal.
Eventually, watching normal connection wont feel weird.
Eventually, well get back to that as well.
And of course, John Oliver.
And I have to say, it felt at home in this boundlessly horrifying world.
I felt at home, which is, incidentally, the normal were most familiar with right now.
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