I can watch what I want and it don’t bother me! I love horror movies!
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My anxiety is to high now to watch them. I feel like I experienced the maximum amount of terror a person can have and watching them now would be like hitting a raw nerve. Before my illness I loved them, couldn’t get enough of them!
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Last horror movie I watched was at an horror film festival, the villain was a guy in his 40s, 50s who lived with his parents and had been in a mental health institution for 20 years for killing a little girl.He was evil basically because he heard a voice who commanded him to kill children. Left the cinema feeling a little upset with the plot, especially because the trailer and synopsis mentioned nothing about voices or mental illness, only about a guy who liked heavy metal that started painting strange things after moving into a new house…
Then I watched stranger things, the netflix series, which I found to be more suspense, sci-fi I guess. light horror.
I’ve drastically reduced the horror content I consume, as I found some of the stuff would stick with me and survace during psychotic breaks.
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That is one of my biggest pet peeves! First of all, there are soo many differences between psychosis and psychopathy, and no one ever touches on those MAJOR differences.
And secondly, it is so rare for any movie to portray schizophrenics as protagonists. They’re always evil or just plain crazy, and nothing they say is of any value. And then when they are portrayed as protagonists, it’s entirely misleading.
Also, that’s why I don’t watch them. I just feel like I’m giving the enemy ammo against me.
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I love scary movies…minus the just gory nonsense…I’m not talking funny gory that’s fine just the brutal for the sake of shock gory…but I can see how certain styles of horror feed the stigma…
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I don’t like horror movies also. I don’t like being scared.
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It would be cool to see a movie portraying a schizophrenic just living a regular life, going to work, shopping groceries, going to the barber shop… A movie that just hinted the person is schizophrenic, like through a visit to a doctor and the thing just stayed in the air. This would be a short film really, as if it was a lenghty one it would be kind of boring. The result would be something to raise awareness mainly I guess.
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I’d buy that movie.
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Me too regarding the news.
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Most interesting thing I have read today.
I thought I was the only one. I have to be careful watching the news.
I once watched a disturbing report and thought it was going to happen to me. So now I am careful, and try not to watch triggers. I will not mention them here, as I do not wish to trigger anyone else.
Horror movies used to trigger me too. I get too drawn into them and think I am part of it, it takes a while to shake it off.
I guess you just have to learn your triggers and avoid them, although it is easier said than done!
However, I did watch Stephen King´s “IT” film the other night. It didn’t trigger me at all, but I did notice how the clown represents the manifestation of a psychosis. It follows you wherever you go, attacks you when you try and get rid of it, and no one else can see it but you.
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Horror movies don’t seem to bother me much, for me the real horror is watching the 6 o’clock news - now that’s scary!
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Makes my paranoia and hallucinations worse and gives me nightmares making it harder for me to sleep
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Sometimes I need to avoid them, but other times they actually make me feel better about my situation. It’s like they make me able to see my hallucinations better as a separate, harmless thing. Therapeutic in a way. I even love to write poems, play songs, and draw pictures that are of the gothic style. But when it comes to the art making I definitely maintain a limit on how creepy I can make it, ha.
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Man I love horror movies so much they are my favorite. Saw conjuring two on the plane and it was awesome!!!