We’re in the thick of the spooky season, which means pumpkins, candy and, most importantly, horror movies on repeat. Horror movies are a fun way to celebrate all things scary, but sometimes they can get a little too terrifying and cause anxiety symptoms to spike.

While some scary movies may help some with anxiety, that’s not the case for everyone. If someone has anxiety sensitivity (the fear of behaviors or stimuli associated with anxiety), they are more likely to react negatively to horror movies. Intrusive thoughts and feelings about being afraid can occur when watching a scary movie.

Knowing your limits and what may push you over the edge is important. Try these five things if a horror movie triggers your anxiety.

For more on mental health, learn how to relieve anxiety without medication and the daily things you can do to improve your mental health.

Why can scary movies cause anxiety?

Scary movies don’t cause anxiety. However, they can trigger anxiety symptomseven though you know the threat isn’t real.

It’s all about what happens in the body when we’re watching scary movies. During horror movies, our brains release adrenaline, which prepares our bodies for stressful situations. Our sympathetic nervous system responds to the threat and throws us into the “fight or flight” response. This results in physiological responses like increased heart rate and muscle contracting.

Horror movies are designed to throw us into fight or flight mode and elicit emotions like fear

Xbox and PC players are quickly discovering that they can’t disable crossplay in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Activision’s latest Call of Duty installment launched early this morning, with PlayStation players able to freely toggle crossplay on or off. Xbox and PC players are rightly not happy about this.

There are a variety of reasons why Xbox players want to disable crossplay, including trying to keep away from PC cheaters or simply avoiding PC players with the mobility advantages of mouse and keyboard. Likewise, PC players often want to steer clear of controller players and their aim assist.

We’ve been here before with Call of Duty, too. Xbox players are still frustrated by forced crossplay in Call of Duty: Warzone. While there is a crossplay toggle in the settings menu on Xbox, as soon as you try to load into a playlist, it will force you to disable crossplay, whereas on PlayStation, you can simply dismiss the prompt and continue to the playlist with crossplay still disabled.

There are ways to work around this in the system settings of an Xbox, but it doesn’t always work, and Xbox players often find themselves with big queue times for matchmaking instead.

We’ve reached out to Activision about this forced crossplay before and the discrepancies between Xbox and PlayStation, but the company hasn’t commented. We’ve reached out again, and we’ll update you if we ever hear back.

New images from NASA’s next-generation James Webb Space Telescope present views of the cosmos so clear and crisp, it’s spooky. For Halloween, the space agency turned up the (mid infra-)red in a picture of the spectacular “Pillars of Creation” to give this remarkable star-forming region a darker, dustier tone.

The Pillars of Creation — located within the sprawling Eagle Nebula some 6,500 light-years away — first achieved astronomical fame when the Hubble Space Telescope observed it in 1995.

Then, it was brought back into the limelight as the ‘scope revisited it in 2014, and last week, Hubble’s successor Webb provided highly sharp, detailed views of the pillars, managing to peer through more of the area’s obscuring dust than was previously possible. That image was produced by the machine’s Near-Infrared instrument. However, as it turns out, Webb is also equipped to let the dust and gas themselves shine in their own ethereal way.

Switching to Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, provided the creepy observation of the iconic pillars we see above.

Viewing the scene in the mid-infrared brings out the dust that cloaks light from numerous stars shining through, sparkles more easily observed on other parts of the spectrum and highlighted in Webb’s seminal image of the landscape, according to NASA.

The effect lends the whole scene a more ghostly feel, like a great shadowy hand reaching across the universe. The crimson hues highlighted by MIRI are enough to make you wonder if we’re actually looking at the heavens or

There’s just one kind of cat veterinarian Ben Simpson-Vernon would bring into his own family. Simpson-Vernon, known as Ben the Vet on TikTok, has made popular videos about the five breeds of dog he would and wouldn’t getand one about the four cat breeds he’d avoid. So his newest video, about the type of cat he would get, was inevitable — and should prove satisfying to many who have cat.

“There’s just one,” Simpson-Vernon says. “I would just get a domestic shorthair, otherwise known as a moggy — just your regular, standard, garden variety cat. They’re the cat’s equivalent of a mutt, or a mongrel, so on average they’re going to be less inbred than your average pedigreed cat. And they’re just as lovely.”

(“Moggy,” or “moggie,” is a term used in Britain for a regular, non-pedigreed cat, and really, we Americans need to borrow that word.)

@ben.the.vet And the cat breed I would get is… #catsoftiktok#veterinary#benthevet#rescuecat♬ Meow – Lvusm

Simpson-Vernon also spoke about the importance of getting cats neutered (or, presumably, spayed) so they don’t have kittens and contribute to the problem of so many cats needing homes. He also showed a photo of himself with some rescue cats he recently checked over for a charity, noting that the cute cats in the photo have all found homes.

Earlier, Simpson-Vernon said he wouldn’t get a purebred cat