Recently, when binge watching some show I looked at the episode number – there were 3 episodes left. Then sudden feeling hit me – I had some kind of an anxiety attack because I didn’t want to watch the last episode. I haven’t experienced anything like that before. I was hyperventilating and wanted to “escape somewhere” for about 40 minutes. So, I wanted to ask if there’s a specific scientific name for that effect of not wanting to watch something to the end because you didn’t want to see the ending?
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My wife is like this a little bit, so don’t feel alone, but I don’t know what that’s called.
I sometimes get like this – i’ll watch the whole thing except the last episode and i’ll put that off for weeks.
I think it’s because I don’t want it ending, so I prolong the feeling of enjoying the show before it ends.
You can ask chatgpt
I have this too. I’ve never finished my favorite book series (Discworld) because as long as I don’t read the final book, there’s always one more book. It makes no sense.