I worried it was just me. Inarticulate concerns that I might just be getting "timid" or "weak" in my old age also sound silly when I find words for them, but they felt real and worrisome.

Definitely not just you, I've still never been able to watch some of the grimmer parts of BtVS (Tara's death and the aftermath), and while I adored the writing of Elizabeth Bear and Emma Bull's Shadow Unit, they finally twisted the knife in the audience's back so far that I didn't feel able to go on*.

*That coincided with starting to take gabapentin, which definitely messed me up psychologically. I dropped the gaba, but still don't really feel able to go back.