Ptsd Theatre - Movies, Tv, Books, Etc.

[Orglethorp]

A couple more books I thought of:

Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
No Comfort Zone (Marla Handy)
Room (Emma Donoghue)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)
The Blue Light Project (Timothy Taylor) - referring mostly to the character Mov and not the protagonists.

 

[SweetPeaandSunBird]

My boyfriend and I just rented a Native American film that deals with PTSD on a community level, based on boarding schools in Minnesota which forced Native American children (through beatings, etc.) to change their cultural identity. The last scene has a real restorative message once "the truth comes out."

The movie is Older Than America.

 

[LC23]

I just picked up Clan of the Cave Bear (the novel by Jean M. Auel) for the first time in several years. Ayla, the main character, is forced to end for herself when an earthquake kills her parents. She later also has some brutal experiences at the hands of her adopted family (another tribe of an earlier human species). There are of course no psychologists for then to diagnose her as such, but some of her behavior I recall is PTSD-like, a situation made all the more complicated by the fact that her adopted tribe family is Neanderthal, an earlier species of proto-human, while she is Cro-Magnon, with longer toes, a bigger forebrain, and an ability to think creatively and in abstractions. This difference makes her a perpetual outsider in her home as a child and then later a perpetual outsider for a good few more books worth (I never read Books 5 and 6, so maybe that changes, but don't spoiler me!) A difficult book in a long, epic series of prehistoric mankind, but so worth the read.

The horrible movie adaptation with Darryl Hannah? Not so much.

 

[LC23]

er, that should be 'fend for herself'.

 

[Five Leaves Left]

There is a Scottish film called "The Ratcatcher" where a young boy feels responsible for his friend's accidental death. This connects tons with my own story. You see the boy start to become more withdrawn, but at the same time, seeing things with more depth. He has a strong desire to visit a nearby field, where everything seems free & beautiful, which was the opposite of how his scenerio was.

 

[Five Leaves Left]

PS: Yes, Fisher King! So good and connecting.

 

[Britt.f7]

I am reading a book called:

Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience [DLMURL="https://www.ptsdforum.org/Laurence-Gonzales/e/B000APO8WQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1"]Laurence Gonzales[/DLMURL]It is a group of stories about survivors and what happens after their survival. I've only read three of the stories. One involved a woman who survived a shark attack. Another was about two people who survived at sea on a raft with 3 other people(who didn't make it). The third one is about a woman who was in a very abusive marriage where her husband tried to kill her and shot himself in front of her. All of these stories deal with the events and how the people lived afterwards.

The author said he had wrote a book prior to this about survival, but said it ended where the person had a happy ending. This time he wanted to go into what the survivors now do with surviving a catastrophic event. I found it really helps. It forces me to think of ways I've survived and connects me to other's who survived. I don't feel so alone when I read these stories. These people have been through some amazing things. I'd really recommend reading it. Though it might have some triggers for some of you.

 

[Rumors]

Hey, don't forget Forrest Gump, "Run Forrest, RUN!" Kind of full circle too when it comes to PTSD when you think about it. Even Lt Dan made peace on the boat during the hurricane.

 

[JustBe]

The movie "Angel Eyes" makes my heart hurt.

 

[LC23]

Thanks to Toria for recommending Downton Abbey. It is quite good, and that butler was def. PTSD to the hilt.

 

[Jlso111187]

The movie " Home of the Brave" its a good movie. It portrays combat PTSD very well. I cried a lot during it.

 

[who am i kim]

Awesome thread. Will do something thinking and see what I can come up with. :tup: