Movies You Can't Watch Because The Hit Too Close To Home?

[99Phoenix99]

This happened to me a few months ago. I was flipping through the TV stations and they were playing "My Sister's Keeper". I watched maybe a quarter of it before I HAD to change it.

Seeing that little girl, hospitalized, unable to live life normally, constantly in a life and death situation for years, being forced to undergo medical procedure after medical procedure, and having parents who treated her like glass hit way too close to home for me.

I dissociated so bad. I started shaking and sweating. I HAD to change the station. It took me days to get over it. That movie gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.

Anyone else have that experience?

 

[Privateer]

I'm kind of weird and have gone the other way, in as much as I've become almost obsessed with watching films and TV programmes about war and search and rescue. They actually help me keep my head together, you know? I can focus on them and feel like myself again for a while.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I cannot watch the movie Deliverance. I used to be into horror movies and have a ton of dvds. But they are also off limits for now. I do not know if it will always be this way. I am watching the deer hunter and that is pushing it for me. I do not know why this happened. I sure would like to find out. Usually I watch kid movies and light hearted comedies.

 

[shadowchaser]

Clockwork Orange

I can't do it. I've tried.

 

[Red Feather]

There are definetly many films I can't watch. With PTSD, my nerves are really not the best. I lay off of all thrillers or action films.

Once I got really triggered by an animation film. That was because the story had something about a mother having to leave her son at an orphanage. And suddenly I had this panic attack. I like watching family films and stuff like that. My anxiety even goes up the roof by watching comedies. :rolleyes:

 

[maddog]

Sadly, as with most things in my life right now, there doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason about what I can tolerate, or even indulge in, versus what is sharply and horribly triggering for me.

By nature, I am into crime thrillers and am unphased by violence, even that which bears resemblance to my own past. Perhaps the fact that I have worked in law enforcement, specifically in areas which bring me into direct contact with this material, is part of why I have always been desensitised to this sort of content.

But sometimes, inexplicably, I just can't do it anymore. A couple of weeks ago I was watching a 60 Minutes documentary about institutional abuse, and I literally had to turn it off. Hell, if I was at work, I'd probably be actually working alongside the investigation, and yet right then, I couldn't even watch the doco.

A few months ago I watched the movie Sleepers for probably the fifth time - for some reason it replays on one of our free-to-air channels over here quite frequently. I've always found it moderately compelling and sad, but this night, it triggered me to almost uncontrollable distress and gave me nightmares and vivid flashbacks for days.

Not sure I'll ever be game to watch it again.

Strange indeed.

Maddog

 

[VDWngr1355]

Don't watch anything really for TV and movies. I'll watch YouTube videos that are funny. Almost anything else is too triggering.

 

[Venusian]

There hasn't been a particular movie that I couldn't watch but there have been plenty of TV episodes that I have had to turn off. There are some that were so close I couldn't help but watch to see how they ended because the not knowing would have been worse.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Speak and A Woman In Berlin.

 

[Muzikluvr]

Case 39

 

[SweetPeaandSunBird]

Any movie in which animals (especially pets) die -- whether animated or not. Animals have never hurt me, humans, yes. I'll sob until I get a migraine if anything gets close to what I call the Bambie Trigger.:cry:

My threshold has improved a lot over the years, as long as I'm not in the movie theater.

My pleasure is dialogue. If it's what I like, I tend to put up with somethings that I used to shield myself against. It all depends on the day, though. Sometimes I'm obsessed with viewing things that remind me of my past; other days, I avoid them.

Interesting topic.

 

[99Phoenix99]

Thanks for all of the replies and sharing guys!

I find it really interesting what Privateer, Maddog, and SweetPeaandSun have all mentioned. That some become engrossed while others avoid. Or even depending upon the day it may switch.

Now that I think about it, even though my trauma is medical based I really love the show House. I didn't realize that until now.

Any ideas on that? Because it's got me thinking now lol

Anyhow, hope everyone has a great day!