It's actually worse. If you're watching something terrible like gore, there's still some distance between you and the thing that you're watching OTOH, if you'r

It's actually worse. If you're watching something terrible like gore, there's still some distance between you and the thing that you're watching OTOH, if you're getting emotionally abused in a place that's already full of damaged people (and if you're seeing all of their pathological coping strategies first hand), that has more potential for long term harm