The closest to it was watching Dahmer and getting to the part about the teenage boy because it was a fictionalized depiction of a real event. Despite knowing about what happened for years, there's something different about seeing it depicted on screen. It wrecked me for a while afterwards, and I stopped watching the show because how much it bothered me. It would have still bothered me if it was fiction, but probably not anywhere to the same level.
i dont know if it would be considered PTSD, but i saw one of the Child's Play movies ( i think it was 3) at way to young an age and the the scene where the nerdy kid sacrifices himself for the "cool kids" by diving on the grenade really messed me up for a long as time. still bums me out thinking about it as an adult.
No I’ve never developed PTSD from a piece of fiction. I’d imagine you require something actually traumatic to experience PTSD. You know… getted raped by a stranger on rough concrete or seeing your friend’s legs get blown up and having chunks of their flesh land on your face. Maybe a bad car accident where you witness someone die and you lose a limb.
Seeing a scene in a movie or reading a description simply isn’t going to compare. I guess there are sensitive people and people react to the same stimulus in different ways - the same thing that may traumatize one person may not effect another the same way. Having said that, PTSD is a serious diagnosis and we shouldn’t be so loose with the definition.
If you are just trying to use a loose definition of PTSD in which case the second half of 1984 made an impact on me when I was a teen. Wilson getting threatened with putting his face put into a cage with rats after having watched his mom’s corpse get eaten by rats as a child sounds pretty traumatic.
Actually, that’d be another good example of something that would actually cause PTSD
@Merlu i can’t say, but it’s possible, id think, given that to the brain, an event, a dream, a vivid daydream, and a movie are much the same. i can’t, for example, watch horror movies. if i do, i will have terrible nightmares. and i’m choose about what i watch (and read) in general, because for me, it’s like i’m living it. there are things that still evoke feeling from me 60 years later—that didn’t actually happen to me. (oh, and a lot of things did happen too, and i have ptsd, diagnosed, but i probably didn’t have it my whole life.)
oh, if you just mean “it horrified me and overwhelmed me emotionally” (vs actual clinical ptsd—i’m too literal sometimes, and i don’t know how to edit or delete on kbin yet so…) then for me, that would be a number of movies, but probably the worst would be blue velvet. dennis hopper’s portrayal of a homocidal maniac was just too, too much. i wish id never watched it.
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