Yes, strongly. Sometimes when thing gets awkward I need to walk away from the TV screen, or pause the video/lift my eyes from the book, tell myself it's someone else's story not mine, then resume the video and repeat the cycle. Awkwardness is something I had problem dealing with. I could deal with death/injury of TV character. But if the injury is at a certain uncomfortable position(such as stabbing heart, something penetrate under the feet), then I would feel very uncomfortable, mentally and physically. I have no urge to intervene anything though. I certainly don't lack empathic ability,quite the opposite. I feel too much that it mess up my childhood memory(I thought things happen to other kids actually happened to me).