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My boyfriend watched Shutter Island while I was at work the other day. It was another movie of my moms and he said it would probably upset me so I didn't watch it. The problem with what he says I would have issues with... When it shows the descriptions of the blackouts and the personality changes it triggers me and causes me to start drifting off far away. Even movies where they only blackout cause this.
My mom is strange though. Every since I was dx'd DID she's been about movies with DID, horror movies about DID. About 3 weeks about my dx of MPD my mom rented the movie Identity. It became her favorite movie but a movie that terrified me. Up until PC I never knew much about DID other than from the movie Identity, it really scared me out of any kind of acceptance of it at that time. PC showed me it's much different and it's OK, you're not crazy.
Now I'm concerned what these movies are doing. I've already had a lot more dissociation happening in the last few months and the movies seem to trigger it even more, especially when it's a movie about abuse. That kind of abuse actually does happen to people, it's really not fun and games and acting all the time, those scenes, the horror scenes that so many laugh and shy away from, remind some people way too much of real life
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