I have spent the last 3 days watching horror movies on Netflix. Particularly films about demonic possession. I know they are just movies but I think I should lay off them for a while. Same goes for conspiracy theory TV shows. My doctor thinks they are bad for me. Maybe he is right?
I can’t take either of those… I will freak out and unravel quickly.
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I can take conspiracy theories but don’t find them engaging. I don’t do horror at all, I find it too upsetting and wonder that people can even bring themselves to perpetuate the genre.
But yes I think anyone, and especially people with sz, are better off not watching either of them.
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Last time I watched a horror movie, it looked like the doorways in my house were breathing. Kinda freaked me out for a while. Especially since the movie was about a possessed room.
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My mother in law is big on horror movies. I personally can’t watch them, they bother me too much and give me nightmares. Usually when they are watching scary movies i’m on this site trying to distract myself.
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My narcissistic “friend” showed me “Loose Change” in hopes I would believe that 9/11 was an inside job. I started to buy it for about the first 15 minutes, but then a wave of suspicion came over me and decided to do some reading to counter the claims of the “documentary”. I mean c’mon, Bush was incompetent, but he wasn’t that maligned and evil. He’s a recovering alcoholic for crying out loud!
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My psychologist tells me to avoid watching conspiracy shows. I watched a bunch recently despite that, but there was a long time between then and when I had watched them before then. Yeah, the fema camps never happened, but there were all these conspiracy youtube videos about it driving me crazy for a while. Whenever I watch this series called A Haunting about demons, I start to hallucinate a little bit, even on the meds, but I love that show, so I’m torn. It’s not even that scary, but I still start to see things just a little bit.
I love horror movies. Always have. Which brings up something I’ve been wondering about for a while…
Ordinarily I see horror movies / spooky stuff / conspiracy theories as entertaining and meaningless, but when my depression gets to a certain point, they become comforting. I’m blaming it on depression but it could be something else, I don’t know. I get to a point where I want to watch horror movies, play scary games, read about disturbing stuff in the news, learn about conspiracy theories, because it feels like there’s an answer there I’m looking for, it feels like I’m feeding a need.
Therapists in the past have told me to back off on all this stuff when I’m already distressed and kinda “losing touch”. But I think they’ve got it backwards. I’m not suffering because of this media I’m consuming – I’m consuming this media in order to understand and alleviate my suffering.
Do any of you do that? Do you get what I’m talking about? How do you handle it?
I use to love the horror movie genre…my fav was the Saw series. Until I started hearing voices and my schizo dad tried to “exorcise” demons from me, now I watch happy, annoying movies
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They’re fine as long as it doesn’t become a regular obsession. Maybe you’re doc is right. But if this is a one time binge I wouldn’t worry about it. If you find yourself starting to do it it all the time, it’s time to lay off.
The elephant in the room is the fact that we are schizophrenic and many people’s delusions are wrapped up in possession and conspiracy theories. So if watching these are feeding in to delusions that are already there, then maybe you’re doc is right and it’s time to stop.
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I personally would not watch these kind of movies. Because It can influence your delusions… I have been forever scarred by the Movie Hellraiser where I sometimes get the delusion that I’m gonna end up in a Hell like that in that movie. Conspiracy Theories are bad as well because they get you suspicious and you think “What If?” I would avoid any such films.
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I used to watch Game of Thrones for years, until this year.
It got too dark for me and I could no longer watch it.
I am easily triggered by dark, violent - horror filled shows and movies