Movies desensitizing? Is it worth it?

Does watching a scary movie desensitize people, to the point where the more often you watch it the less scared you will be? Is it a good thing to desensitize yourself? I often thought it makes you more cynical and paranoid in life. I feel like i am too innocent for scary movies, they are all too scary for me and i dont want it to effect my personality in a negative way like i dont want to get ptsd from it. I dont watch anything scary and then i think will i be scared of anything thriller my whole life like this everyone will be fine and my cortisol levels will go up. I am definetly not a gryffindor.

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

The more you can, what you so called desensitize yourself, the closer to reality you become.

It's not really desensitisation though. It's an attempt at understand things that are foreign to you. In understanding you become changed.

Change is in everything. That is reality. No change is a fiction. No change is non existence.

Non existence itself is a abominable horror.