Biggest Misrepresentations Of Trauma In Media?

[Sideways]

The quick turnaround in the media doesn't help our supporters either. They see the magical overnight recovery in movies and think that's how it should happen for us as well. So while they're rooting for us to have our miraculous healing moment, all we hear from them is confused "Why can't you just...":tdown::sour:

 

[lostforgottensoul]

but it does happen.

Yes it does. I used to, to say a guy I liked and wanted to maybe start dating spit out not all but the hightlights of my past to say "this is whom I am, do you still want to date me?" And the answer was always no except my ex but he is an abuser and guys that just want me for sex and not many, can count them on one hand, care that I was sexually abused for as long as I can remember and this is why Im wanting sex from you now.

I dont do that in person anymore. I stopped that after about the 3rd or so year in therapy. Now i cant voice it and really couldnt then except to spit it out fast without taking a breath. Then if the guy wanted to talk about it, again almost none, there wasnt any of that after talk. It was ok now lets have sex or get high or it was, i gotta go.

On here I spit it out pretty fast too. I think it was for the same reason, see this is whom you are dealing with here...the most f*cked up person on the planet...but it was also needed to get it out to someone other than my therapist, I needed "the world" to hear it and what better than the internet?

Today, in person I can some what voice stuff to my therapist but i never look at him. But no one else and certianly not a stranger. Unsure what the difference of then and now is. I think that was back in days of completely numbess to it where today its a gapping wound that I cant seem to go near but its no longer completely numb.

So does happen but I dont think for the reasons Hollywood protrays. I usually take what I see in Hollywood with a grain of salt. Though it depends on the show or movie as many shows of in the last few years are quite close when showing a traumatized person.

Hollywood is intresting for sure. I have a phrase "they 'hollywooded' it" meaning its not accurate.

 

[Air]

Yes it does. I used to, to say a guy I liked and wanted to maybe start dating spit out not a...

I get that, but it's not quite what I meant. I more was referring to it when to a complete stranger often who they won't see again right during the introduction. Now apparently this does happen too, so I stand corrected, but saying it before dating someone does seem more common to me.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Oh @Air Im sorry, I miss understood.

One thing I learned here is the moment I say no one does someone did, its done this way someone did it an opposite way, etc.

But in general, I do get what you mean about Hollywood, they "Hollywooded it"! ;)

 

[lostforgottensoul]

The biggest misrepresentation in fictional media, I believe, is the quick turnaround. The break-through moment, the clouds lifting, the world getting easier

OMG so true. And yes, I agree that supporters, namely my dad, expects this. He says things like "you've been in therapy 7 yrs, shouldnt you be "healed" by now? I think that adds to my self frustration.

He did this about oh a year or 2 into therapy when I was taught to feel explosions coming on and remvoing myself before they happened so for him, they didnt happen. He said "you are better now, you wont need to go to therapy anymore"....like hell I dont!

But then my dad isnt like most supporters, or even most people. He's stick his head in the sand and deny, deny, deny.

I thought Good Will Hunting was going really well...until "that" session. T tells him "It's not your fault", Will has a good cry, then scoots off to his true love and brilliant career.

Awww, I loved that scene. Not reality but loved it. Its not you could have like 10 yrs of therapy in a movie.

Based on that scence, I told my therapist that he will need to corner me and push it out of me, LOL. Seriously. Little did I know I did need someone to push me and it was me that pushed me.

The quick turnaround in the media doesn't help our supporters either.

So while they're rooting for us to have our miraculous healing moment, all we hear from them is confused "Why can't you just..."

Uh huh. I dont think my dad is a typical supporter but the thread of what not to say to someone with PTSD that has like 300 something pages, he's said at least half thats there to me. :sour: I want my "magical healing" too dumbass! :shifty: