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Old 02-13-2007, 10:27 PM   #1
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Entertainment and PTSD

Things we do alone can easily be dismissed as insignificant as they relate to trauma.

I know not to reveal my choices of entertainment to the tiny circle of friends who know about my life's weirdness. My best friend, knowing of a couple of interests, has firmly told me my taste was unhealthy. (By the way, it's not porn.)

Disturbing images run through my head daily. I call them disturbing because that's what they are to a friend if I talk about them. I feel nothing when I see the images or read about them. They don't disturb me.

In film, I don't crave gore or impossible plots, but I crave disturbing content, images and concepts. I never read fiction. That sort of entertainment makes me feel normal. I never have a nightmare associated with a movie or documentary I've seen or a book or article I've read. There are images that will put me into a freeze, ones that push my trauma buttons. But I can't look away. To the other extreme, I enjoy very light, fantasy-like films, no-brainers. Nothing in-between.

I'm not sure what I'm asking here, but I've never asked another person with PTSD what they choose to entertain themselves. A lot of you appear to have crossed over into the 'normal' kingdom of healthy living. Am I hindering progress?

 
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Re: Entertainment and PTSD

Nikki,

I think that if you look more deeply into the complexities of the mind in your research you will find that these thought patterns can be harmful. If I remember my college days...LOL LONG TIME AGO!!!! There was a study done with I think inmates. They were shown repeated pictures of naked women, with hidden images of BOOTS.... The men eventually associated boots with sexual arousal. So I do think that your thought patterns can hinder you in your recovery mode. I have often said to all of us that we need to change the thought patterns. Hard to do at times, but very much needed...

You have come so far Nikki, that this is one area that would help you to over come the past. You know that all men aren't evil, and nasty. There are some good ones still out there. I have often viewed the world and it's people by thinking that not everyone has an agenda. That there are still some that just care about their fellow man.

Try and change the thoughts that are running around in your head, try and view things with a lighter perspective. Always be on guard, but don't bring the pit bull with you. If you know what I mean.....

Love and hugs..........

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good morning ladies***** Nikki what you do with visions I believe I also do with thought processes. I could sit endlessly and think about some of my past abuse, I call it building scenarios. Could put myself back in the throws of abuse in a heartbeat and relive it over and over. Now I push it so far out of my life I am amazed that I can. Amazing how different we all are. When i am watching a movie , the news, reading a paper and come across domestic violence I have to change the chanel.It scares me as I then remember all of the abuse of my ex-husband and how many times he could have killed me but I stayed in danger for so many years. I have now pretty much wiped him and the 30 years we spent together out of my mind. I have forgiven myself for staying and allowing this to go on as long as it did. I have also forgiven myself for raising my daughters in that environement. I protected them from most of it but they still knew and saw things I wish they hadn't. I have not forgiven him and hold him accountalbe for all of his abuse. I do believe it hinders the progress as you are living in the traumas still. To me this is another issue that needs some work. you have conquered soooooooo very much and have come out ahead. I have to agree with Sid that it is damaging holding onto the same unhealthy thought processes and behaviours. Your on the "yellow brick road" sweetheart heading into recovery. Stay on this path and you will continue to question all unhealthy behaviours and that is a wonderful thing for you as it is for all of us.

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Re: Entertainment and PTSD

I understand the prison experiment, Sid. I've got a lot to work on. And I try every stinkin' day to remind myself that all men aren't evil and nasty.

When I was a child, I began a fascination with death, torture and abuse. I never harmed a living thing and didn't want to. I was a very gentle, loving child, more than most.

I wanted to be hurt. I remember seeing documentaries about missing children and being mesmerized, not happy, just frozen and deeply disturbed.

Later, true crime, forensics, suicide, death, torture and deviant behavior captured my attention and never let go.

Asian horror and many independent and foreign films dare to cross the forbidden zone, not with gore, but with deranged concepts and normalization of cold, unfeeling apathy with regard to life and healthy thinking.

I'm not unfeeling, neither do I approve of criminal activity. But the presence of screwed up minds makes me feel less of a freak for the unsettling material that lives in my head.

I have been progressing, but the things I've seen in my head for 31 years have produced a very long movie that would never get out of the editing room. My choices of entertainment often distract me from that 'movie.'

I was a 5-year-old that fantasized about naked men being wrapped in barbed wire. Getting rid of SI was like spitting compared to the thought of losing the material that keeps my sickness company.

I never talk about this stuff with anyone. If you're not sickened by me now, I'd love your help. I don't want to feel like the sick freak I have all my life. After telling you this crap, I probably don't sound very gentle and loving anymore. Please see me. I've always felt like flowers and meadows scattered with chains and blood.

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Nikki^^^^^^^^^^ "The presence of screwed up minds makes me feel less of a freak for the unsettling material that lives in my head". Read your words a few times over and over. I did.

I think you are using this type of entertainment so that "your movie never has to be edited" as then it would all be a reality and as long as it's happening to someone else your's doesn't have to be dealt with, someone else has it worse. Mine isn't that bad. there are worse horrors out there. Nikki this is just my thoughts. Please feel free to kick my butt if I am way off target or have misunderstood or slighted your feeling sin any way.

I know you posted this to Sid but I have to tell you that you are still the sweet, loving young woman I saw at first and will continue to be. Nothing you say or do could ever sicken me and I'm sure there will be many others behind me who feel the same way. I know that was hard for you but am glad you were able to post it.

Love you,
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