Fictional Characters With Ptsd - Movies/film, Tv And Literature.

[Sandstone]

Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy L Sayer's detective novels. As an officer in WW1 he ordered many men to their death, and he suffers extended flashbacks on sending murderers to the gallows. In his acute phases he is unable to give any orders to servants.

One of the novels, " The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club" is an extended study of the aftermath of WW1, and the varying impact on different individuals.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

I shall read those novels @Sandstone
I haven't read detective stuff in a while

 

[Sandstone]

I think they are the best of the Golden Age detective novels. Far better written than Agatha Christie.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

I hope they are available here :P

 

[silversky]

The protagonist, Lissar, in Robin McKinley's novel "Deerskin". After a severe trauma, Lissar runs away from her life as a princess into the forest with her dog. The book is about her slow journey to healing and re-entry into the "real world". This is a book I have reread multiple times because there is just something real about it that gives me hope.

 

[Poofycat]

I just started rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time in a long time and I'm really noticing that Buffy is dealing with some serious trauma if not full PTSD (which makes sense, she kills stuff all the time). She functions great in stressful situations, but struggles with the mundane tasks other teenagers handle easily. And Sarah Michelle Geller is so great at the complete shutdown when Buffy is asked about something like going to a dance, that other teenagers are excited about but that Buffy will never be able to completely loser herself in and enjoy.

As mentioned previously in the thread, Sam and Dean in Supernatural DEFINITELY have PTSD.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

John Green likes to put PTSD characters in the books

 

[Ellabella44]

Unbreakable Kimmy Scmidt. Its handled as a comedy.

 

[StarvingArtist91]

Olivia Dunham from Fringe. It gets worse before it gets better. Buy her PTSD seems gone by the middle of season 4 though 5 (the finale).

 

[Anarchy]

More of an attachment disorder, he's a passive aggressive people pleaser, miserable, depressive, under employed, hypochondriac, martyr;

Marvin, the "paranoid Android" in hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
When accidentally left behind, he spent several tens of millions of years parking cars, waiting for the gang to return
whenever someone compliments him, his response is always "you don't really mean that, do you"
Brain the size of a planet
and the diodes in his arm still hurt...

 

[KateBeckett]

Detectives Beckett and Esposito in Castle (Season 4, Kill Shot)
Brennan and Hodgins in Bones (Season 2, Aliens in a Spaceship)
Many of The CSIs in all four series, but notably Sara Side.

 

[cat-lady]

Kimmy Schmidt from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Jessica Jones from show titled the same on Netflix; Game of Silence on Hulu. (I took these from the thread https://www.myptsd.com/posts/1048894/ on the News/Politics/Debate section a few weeks ago.) I haven't seen The Brave One but I've heard it's good (about a vigilante with ptsd who goes over the edge).