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Does anyone else who had PTSD from abuse experience being extremely uncomfortable with sex scenes in movies(even as simlpe as kissing) especially when other people are around. I want to crawl out of my skin when they come on. Sometimes I get a full blown panic attack. Just wondering if this is weird or not?
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The ironic thing is that I can watch zombie movies. lol Fantasy violence doesn't bother me.
They still instantly make me feel that dirty feeling.
My insides crawl, my skin crawls.
And I'm 33 years old.
I don't think I'll ever be truly free, and that really f'ing sucks.
What is happening is that the movie presents something realisitic enough to cause your triggers to pop. Yes this is common, and there are movies I simply cannot watch because of it. I can watch crime drama where domestic violence is involved and be moved to action or advocacy, but if I watch a sitcom in which bullying or other forms of verbal abuse is couched in the "entertainment" aspect of the show, then I get seriously triggered and angry. (Rosanne, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Office).
I thought people who can just watch with little reaction are pretty tuned out.
My trauma is sexual from a boyfriend and "medical" from the perspective of my parents dying one having been terminally ill and the circumstances in which I found him, and my mother having been an alcoholic and watching her "kill" herself.
I can't watch rape scenes or anything that eludes to it, nor can I watch medical dramas, or surgery shows. I just cant do it.