Psychologist Warns It’s A Major Red Flag If You Relax By Enjoying True Crime Stories

A psychologist is warning people that it’s a major red flag if you find true crime stories relaxing. 

If you scroll through the Netflix library, you’ll find a ton of dark and disturbing documentaries that explore real-life, horrific crimes.

For instance, there’s the three-part series about the ‘real-life Gone Girl‘, which explores one couple’s harrowing experience with a home invader.

And there’s Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, which follows a spiritual leader who creates a system of abuse and coercion.

While these shows may be among Netflix’s most-watched, a psychologist has warned that it’s a major red flag if you enjoy watching true crime.

True Crime Stories
If you enjoy true crime stories, it could be a red flag, according to one expert. Credit: Netflix

However, not everyone agrees with the expert.

“The trauma isn’t relaxing to me – it’s the justice the characters or real people often get that I never did in my own life,” one person pens.

Another adds: “I’m not about the trauma. I like to see the bad guy get caught or them figure out the mystery.”

Somebody else comments: “Been watching/reading true crime [for] 40 years and still on the right side of prison bars. It’s harmless fascination.”

A fourth agrees, writing: “Some of us just like watching the dark side of things. To me, it makes us more aware of this crazy world just in case we are faced with these kinds of scenarios.”

But for some people, the expert’s words have rang a little too true.

One writes: “Wow! Makes so much sense.”

A second says: “It still surprises me that people find peace to be boring. I don’t know if I’ll ever get over that.”

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