[scar12346]

Talking about massive triggers: Movies!
We can no longer watch movies at the cinema or with other people who don't know that we are multiples. Of course watching with people who know about us or just by ourselves is okay. Here is the situation:
We went to watch "The Fifth Wave" not a great idea. Waidth was in the military according to him, as a kid. Annie lost her big sister. Vladimir is scared from the unknown, and the whole movie was triggering for me so I could not watch it xD. So we switched.. couple of times and none of us know what the movie was about really.. and we left the movie theatre with an awful headache, nose bleed, and confusion. And I couldn't say jack isht because I was with the body's brother who knows nothing of this.
Is this just for us??

[kecanoe]

I can't go to the movies either. Nor even watch TV. Too many triggers.

[amandalouise]

I didnt have a problem with switching in public per se. I switched but because thats how I always was since before I was 5 years old, switching was just my normal, like not switching is a non DID persons normal. I do have to say going to movies was a bit confusing because I would remember going to a movie but not watching the movie, or with those that I was co conscious with seeing the movie as though from a distance. I learned very young when others were discussing things I could not remember like family events or movies to just say wow i forgot about that (even normal people forget things lol) since I became DID before I was 5 it was just common knowledge that I was the one in the family that never remembered things (again treated like it was just normal for me to not remember things because thats how I always was and how everyone in my life always knew me to be, like my treatment provider told me nothnig changes after I got the diagnosis that wasnt already happening before I got the diagnosis. the label just put a name on what has been me all my life )

as an adult after diagnosis I learned what triggered my dissociation for example if battle scenes triggered me to dissociate I didnt want battle scenes. if eating oat meal triggered me into dissociating symptoms\problems I didnt eat oat meal. Instead i would go to movies that were not triggering to me and my internal system of alters, eat what wasnt triggering\causing me to dissociate. and learned how to take care of things that were triggering me that could not be avoided by using the grounding\breathing tools my treatment provider and I were working on.

you seem to know your system very well, maybe next time you want to see a movie you can find one that is less triggering and make an agreement with the others that if something is triggering the alters that its a trigger for wont watch it. a treatment provider can help you learn grounding and breathing that can also help, they can also help you to create a visualization of a safe meditation that will help the others while you are watching movies that trigger others in your internal system of alters.

I can't go to the movies either- But thats because everyone eats. Constantly. The whole way through the film. Really crunchy food. And when I hear people eat I spend every moment concentrating on not killing and / or maiming them and miss the whole film. Its best for all involved if I wait for Netflix to get the movies I want to see. Of course, then I forget what movies I want to see anyway, so I only ever actually watch the same five films over and over.