# Insight Porn

Author: Zack M. Davis
Originally published: 2013-03-16
Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Canonical URL: https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/Mar/insight-porn/

"Actually, maybe my father is right. Maybe the social worker is right."

"About what?"

"My [insight porn](http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2012/09/trying-to-see-through-unified-theory-of.html) addiction—reading and thinking about the sorts of things we read and think about—is harming me in the same way that drug addictions harm people."

"They think that?"

"Not in those words."