'I don't need to watch it. I lived it,' Rita Isbell, the sister of Dahmer victim Errol Lindsey, wrote in an Insider essay. 'Netflix should've asked if we mind or how we felt about making it. They didn't ask me anything. They just did it.'
"We have become consumed by entertainment from horror and crime, which has been culturally and socially accepted for decades. But what seems to be happening now is we consume it so regularly, we don't consider the 'true' in true crime. We don't consider the real impact these crimes had and continue to have," saysTherein lies the problem, trauma experts warn: We've become so enamored with gossiping about these cases, we've tossed aside all empathy.
“This is not a podcast for me. This is real life,” her brother, Young Lee, said during a recent hearing. Part of our true crime obsession stems from the human impulse to understand the mind of a sociopath or murderer. It's normal, to some degree, to wonder about something so shocking, bizarre and unfamiliarAnd sometimes we lose ourselves in other people's"worst moments in order to avoid anything we might be dealing with," says licensed professional counselor"By focusing on someone else's trauma, it brings you to this place of, 'At least my life isn't as bad.
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