This post was inspired by me finally looking up the plot of Midsommar and Hereditary.

These are two movies I've heard a lot of great things about for months. My university degree concerns film and film aspects so I've been interested in seeing them and analyzing them, but my BPD makes me way too paranoid and nervous of horror films. 

I finally caved and looked up the synopsis of each film last night, and just the summary frightened me and made me paranoid. Even though I'd really like to see them and benefit from them to further my own creative works, I literally can't bring myself to do it because I know I'll be paranoid and frightened for literal weeks or months. 

Does anyone else deal with this? How do you manage or work around it?