Yeah in general anything with violence etc. is no good. I started watching Pans Labyrinth (without having seen the rating or review of it) and it was very graphic. I had to leave during the Dark Night.

I didn't know what Georgia Rule was about so looked it up, that would have set me off for sure. So I guess knowing your triggers and reading what the film is about first.

Another film I saw on DVD was "The Craft" - was fine up until like the last scene when one of the characters was in a psych ward strapped to the bed - I was abused as an inpatient so that was pretty awful. I can't stand films based on psych hosp's for that reason.

It was a movie on the Vietnam war. There was scene where napalm bombs and other war fare were being fired. It was quite graphic movie.I work in the ER. I was in a case where 2 guys were burned badly. I froze in the seat in the theatre. I could not move. I had flash back ... It took me a week to shake that one off.

Also I have experienced healing from movies too.

There are several movies for me:

12 Monkeys, Blood Diamond, Apocalypse Now, On The Beach and Threads totally shot me down.

Solaris, The Downfall, The Thin Red Line, Cry Beloved Country and Stay also triggered me.

Horror, crime and drama movies are a bad choice for me, as is most about the Yugoslav wars and others.


I can watch those movies and documentaries, yet in individual short parts and stretched over days and only without certain scenes.

Frankly, I stopped watching TV a year ago. I simply cannot enjoy it, except for informational programmes.