Why Are We Obsessed With True Crime? + How Can We Make Our Obsessions Healthy? | Solo Episode #64

The Yegi Project

Let's talk obsessions! As a person who tends to get obsessed with things more often than the usual person, it made me curious to learn why we get obsessed with things in the first place. In today's episode, we go over what an obsession is, what today's population is currently obsessed with, why we get obsessed with things in the first place plus some healthy obsessions we can introduce into our lives to replace the bad ones.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Let’s Talk Obsessions!
0:47 What is an Obsession?
1:44 Why Are We Obsessed with Superheroes?
2:41 Why Are We Obsessed with Celebrities?
5:45 Why Are We Obsessed With True Crime?
8:39 Why Are We Obsessed with Social Media?
10:34 Why Do We Get Obsessed with Things?
12:07 How to Deal with Obsessions in a Healthy Way
13:50 Some Healthy Obsessions We Can Add to Our Lives
Some Articles Referenced:
True Crime
https://www.derby.ac.uk/magazine/issue-11/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-true-crime/#:~:text=For%20Roz%2C%20our%20fascination%20is,ever%20being%20in%20real%20danger.%E2%80%9D
https://www.law.ac.uk/resources/blog/why-we-love-true-crime/
Super Heroes
https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/why-are-we-obsessed-with-superheroes
https://www.kqed.org/pop/4778/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-superheroes
Celebrities
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-americans-obsessed-celebrities-ray-williams-1c/
Serial Killers
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/morbid-minds/202205/why-we-are-fascinated-serial-killers#:~:text=Our%20fascination%20with%20serial%20killers%20is%20part%20of%20a%20broader,out%20information%20about%20dangerous%20circumstances
https://countychronicle.org/2517/editorial/for-the-sake-of-our-humanity-stop-glorifying-serial-killers/#:~:text=According%20to%20Dr.,this%20to%20an%20innocent%20person%3F%E2%80%9D

Social Media
https://buffer.com/resources/psychology-of-social-media/
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