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Post-traumatic writing disorder
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on October 02, 2010, 10:43:41 PM ---Thanks--that's exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. (FYI--it's prose, not a play or film, so I'm trying to translate primarily visual ideas into words.) I think the way to do it might be to start out fairly realistic and gradually bring the weird...
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Depending on exactly how you do the weird, you could have it done through other people's reactions. I've seen some TV shows do PTSD like that. It's not quite the same, but the show Mercy had a nurse, back from Iraq, with PTSD, and it showed how she reacted to stuff and how people reacted to her. One episode had a similar situation to Harry when he first meets Sheila/Lash.
Snowleopard:
Why didn't I think of this before. On the first couple of season's of the Denis leary show - Rescue Me. You see him talking to people that you later realize are ghosts of people, or they're dead people. You also see how his fellow firemen react when he's talking to one of these dead people.
Enjorous:
Sorry, but Dennis Leary was much closer to psychosis than having PTSD. Visual hallucinations are really rare even when people *are* psychotic, let alone when they aren't. Now flashbacks, hyperawareness, irritability, nightmares, insomnia, much closer to actual PTSD.
And in regards to it "being delayed." All PTSD is, the criteria is starting to show symptoms at least 1 month after the event.
Snowleopard:
--- Quote from: Lord Aragorn of Mid~World on October 03, 2010, 03:15:46 AM ---Sorry, but Dennis Leary was much closer to psychosis than having PTSD. Visual hallucinations are really rare even when people *are* psychotic, let alone when they aren't. Now flashbacks, hyperawareness, irritability, nightmares, insomnia, much closer to actual PTSD.
And in regards to it "being delayed." All PTSD is, the criteria is starting to show symptoms at least 1 month after the event.
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True, but it does show her how such a scene is set up in a script and how people on the outside react to it.
Enjorous:
True, personally I think flashbacks would be more jarring. And I'm trying to help with the PTSD facts.
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