Tv Shows

[Chem Lady]

Often, I watch TV shows or movies where terrible things happen, but the good guys save people from the bad guys. Like Law and Order or The Avengers. All the good guys on the show are celebrating that people were saved and all I can think is "well, those people now have PTSD, and they'll never be the same".
Anyone else do this?

 

[RavenGirl]

I don't do that because I know it's not real people or real circumstances. What I HAVE found myself doing is seeing PTSD in real people. People I know who have gone through horrible traumas and I notice they do a lot of the same things I do. I wonder to myself, do they know they have PTSD or are they living in denial like I was for the last 35 years?

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Yep. Criminal Minds will always be my favorite show.

Actually I take it a step further and watch things like "Suviving Evil" where people have survived being abducted or any sort of capture sort of thing. I watch any documentry on human trifficking and just sucked to anything that, I think, makes me feel im not alone.

Also ID and any real life forensic science I love but I also love forensic science. The job i wanted was computer forensics, catching bad people via computers. The show I now love and its scary accurate so far is CSI Cyber.

There have been many threads of this nature as well as my own questions of "why do i" to my therapist, its not abnormal.

 

[ladee]

Criminal Minds !!! My favorite. Do not have a Tv, and can't watch it online as my connection is too slow... but anything to do with the mind... guess because some of us have been to the 'dark places' in real life, so it's not intimidating to see shows like that...
Going to lunch today with a friend of mine who also has PTSD... and I often wonder if people hear us talking, what they may be thinking... we do have our language after all...but yes, I see people and wonder if they even remotely think they might have PTSD. But we know we can't just walk up to someone and ask... Try to imagine myself in that situation, would I be freaked out or relieved... guess it would depend on what was going on that day.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

@ladee anyone seeing me in real life, most especially 18 to 28, couldnt even imagine where ive been and what ive seen etc.

So it would be very hard, outside of Criminal Minds, to look at someone and know what they've been through and seen in their life. It is, afterall, how i became the "crazy liar". It is amazing how us human beings do to remain "functional" and "okay". The human brain never ceses to amaze me!

The watching of tv shows, probably moreso on the real life stuff like on ID, I think its the "im not alone" thing. All of us want to feel that we arent alone and need to identify with someone(s). Though we dont want others to hurt.

 

[Friday]

LOL in 2 ways.

1) All the time :D

In fact, it's how I first got into writing... I wanted more of the story, or hated the ending (beginning, middle, etc.), or in some other way was either excited by or dissatisfied wih the story presented... so I rewrote the sucker. It's also what made me a halfway decent investigator; being able to see that there would be "more" of the story elsewhere, and able to think of different ways to get that information (who else to talk to, where else to go, trails to follow, leads to track down, etc.). Writing is a pure relief because it means "God Mode Activated". ;) In real life, one will never know the entire story, however the joygasmic aspect of real life is that truth is far stranger than fiction! People are amazing.

2) Probably more in line with what you're actually thinking of? I'm dead. Yep. There, too. Dead. Aaaaand dead. Oh! I'm dead again! :banghead: When I watch a film of nearly any kind? I'm not the hero who survives everything. Opening battle scene of Band of Brothers on the beaches at Normandy? Yep. That's me dead on the boat, then dead in the water, then dead on the sand, then... Each and every single moment where "other people" are dying in films and shows, while the heroes move on? In my head I'm dead. Over. And over. And over. When I get in this kind of headspace I have to quit watching stuff, because I cannot suspend disbelief. (That I would actually still be alive to be learning what happens the rest of the movie.) It's far from the greatest movie of all time, but The Edge of Tomorrow has become one of my favorite movies of all time... Just because the character dies. Over. And over. And over. And over again!!! :roflmao: I laughed so hard -in pure relief- just because that's what my head does; and there I'm dead again! That I actually did survive my own life somehow (so far :shifty: ) doesn't seem to enter in. All I can see are 1,000 ways to die... And in a film, I'm dead in all of them :wtf: Vexing.

 

[Ocean5]

Criminal Minds - I joke I could write for them, and not make anything up....
Law & Order - obviously writers have been through a lot. With crime and close family with mental illnesses.

But I try to stay away from those shows for now...

 

[Ronin]

I write the 'and now what's in fiction. And then them going back to totally normal lives except with all the shades of wrong because, hey, that's not something I know how to do and might learn it as writing it :D

& Watch the survivalist f*ckery for not thinking of my own. Or thinking of my own with more distance. Or sequences of my own shit, muted and not so loud all the f*cking time. There you go, brain, that mute button exists somewhere, we're just watching.

And for a myriad of 'Hey, people that won't hurt me & mine & me through mine, they're faar enough' reasons. This & that being similar and totally different, all about basic people stuff, not about trauma stuff, even, that's all good. Reminders the basics lie elsewhere, in times I can't feel them at all, or enough.

 

[RavenGirl]

I watch all those criminal shows too. I'm never the one who died though, I'm always saying why don't they do this, why don't they do that, don't they know if they use this or that they could get away!? I'm also always figuring out "who did it" in the murder mysteries I watch and read. My husband's always surprised how I figure out "who did it."

I guess I have a need to make sure nothing ever happens to me again, to make sure I fight to the end, to my last breath, from the VERY beginning. To make sure I can figure it all out so I can "stop it from happening" ever again. Needless to say I'm VERY AWARE OF MY SURROUNDINGS!! lol

 

[Ronin]

LMAO, speaking of 'why didn't they do this ___', is I think how I unlearned internalized victim blaming.

Because no matter how I chipped at it, the end result would still be the same, or worse than that.
A-ha, newsflash. I can think of that about shows but not my own life? One more thought pattern to kick to the curb.

 

[Gadgie]

Quote......."Yep. Criminal Minds will always be my favourite show."

Yea! I watch them crime channels all the time, they are my favourite ones, and have been for years, ever since we got cable TV.

We also used to like them Physic programs as well, where the physics help the police to solve crimes, they seemed to have stopped now, mind you they kept repeating them so often?

I also enjoy watching the Discovery channels as well, in fact that's the main channels that I watch on the TV.

Oh! and the Ghost Story channel as well, that's another one I like.

 

[joeylittle]

It's far from the greatest movie of all time, but The Edge of Tomorrow has become one of my favorite movies of all time...

I was reading your post and thinking, 'I wonder if @FridayJones has seen that Tom Cruise movie, oh, what's it called....' - and then, you said you had! :tup: I loved that movie too, for the same reason.

@Chem Lady - I know what you mean, though I just assume that all the characters get therapy right away, and doesn't develop PTSD. I have a much harder time with documentaries that cover the same kinds of topics.