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Originally Posted by wpowers
Well, I just got back from the movies - went to watch Where the Wild Things Are. I thought it would just be a cute kids movie - which I love. So I was astounded to find it was actually a very smart child psychology film! Even more, it could be viewed as a Dissociative event!
Anyway, this movie shows in amazing clarity what it is like for me anyway when I was a child and dissociated. You don't know at the start what is really happening. Then you go inside and face the things you need to face. Then you know how to get home when it is safe for you and you made some sense of your world. I think most kids do this anyway, but with DID you just don't forget how to do it - or it is like we get stuck somehow and end up in splitsville. Either way, I was left going "WOW! SOMEONE GOT IT RIGHT!" And esp with the whole anger part too!!! Having to face that inner rage.
I laughed so hard watching the boy howling. Yes. I did that when I was a teen. Alter Mick did it I think!! :-) It was like shouting with your soul into the night and letting the pain and anger escape out! My folks used to HATE it when I would go outside to howl like that!!
So if you are one who does like to watch movies that gently shows what is so hard to put into words- this one might be for you.
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I havent seen the movie yet but read the book many times. I didnt take the book as an example of a dissociative event. the boy wasnt under extreme abuse, he wasnt experiencing numbness or feeling like he wasnt real and wasnt feeling like things in his room werent real and he wasnt switching into alternate personalities. in the book it started with he was told to go to his room without dinner because he was mouthing off to his parent. the parent wasnt hitting him, beating on him, the parent wasnt sexually assaulting him or anythnig. he was just told to go to his room for mouthing off. then in his room he pretended he sailed across the sea not floating outside himself not floating and far away from himself. he pretended he had animal friends in far way lands. as far as I know dissociation doesnt include having imaginary friends. then when he smelled food and felt hungry he pretended he was sailing back over the sea leaving his imaginary friends and there in his room was his dinner where his parent had left it. I know that dissociation includes things like feeling numb not feeling things like feeling hungry and smelling dinner, one dissociative disorder specifically states there cant be imaginary friends. So I never took the book to be about a boy dissociating, or a boy having any dissociative disorders. maybe the movie does more speculating and ading things that the book never had nor meant it to be. I dont know but its a far reach for me to see it as a dissociative event if its like the book.