a little background:

I've recently come to accept that characters on tv are characters, not actual people

for example: I know sheldon cooper is a guy called jim parsons, but a year ago I'd have said he was sheldon

so now I have big anxiety when it comes to a character I like having a bad storyline in the show in question

using sheldon as an example, if he got in to a fight and injured himself, I'd asume it was jim parsons who was injured, not the character of sheldon- and it gets to the point where I obsess over it

no matter how many times I tell myself that the actual person playing the character is fine, it doesn't work

a couple of days ago in another show,



for ages now, all I could think about was oh.. poor laura, poor laura, I wonder how her and her husband are coping, when in reality laura's fine, it was her character who had the issue

it's a weird anxiety, and one I don't suppose is heard of much

still has anyone experienced this? / still experience it.

and how do you cope when it happens. like how do you tell yourself it's okay and not to worry.