The Dark Side of Anxiety

When my anxiety was at the absolute worst I voraciously consumed true crime content. My psychologist's biggest concern for me when I began seeing her was how much I was consuming this type of content and I was doing it exactly as you said to protect myself. Well I wonder if it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that we're told the world is dangerous for us  and then the more we're listening to this stuff the more reminding ourselves of why the world so terrible and of course we're not crazy.